Photo: Scott Carney The distance between handwriting and typography is at its greatest in the West. It’s been more than five centuries since the Latin alphabet, as we experience it in type, looked anything like letters made with a pen; the very... 

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A journalist recently asked what it is about Gotham that we think suits the Obama campaign. We’ll defer to designers John Slabyk and Scott Thomas to make that call — they selected the font for Obama for America, we merely provided it — but... 

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Typeface: Gotham Medium Veteran campaigners know that the best way to gain someone’s vote is to be photographed holding their baby. It seems that the same goes for fonts: it’s hard to take a non-partisan stance when one of the candidates... 

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BREAKING — Wrong Font Chosen for Gravestone . And it’s not the first time . BREAKING — Wrong Font Chosen for Gravestone. And it’s not the first time. —JH Original post: Stupendo Memento Mori ... 

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One of the things I most love about the design of the late nineteenth century is its unpredictability. Across all of the decorative arts there was a strong emphasis on novelty, and a succession of new technologies made it easier than ever to execute... 

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Typeface: Knockout No. 48 Not all political typography has to be set in Gotham (though it seems that way) — here for example are some calls to action by Shepherd Fairey that don’t use any Gotham at all Typeface: Knockout No. 48 Not all political... 

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It took a visit to Finland in 1996 to realize that Nokia the cellphone company and Nokia the tire company were one and the same. Apparently these are merely the latest stops on a very long journey: Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill, on a... 

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Now that’s what I call a banner headline. Now that’s what I call a banner headline. Yesterday’s Indy Star had a nice enough 180pt Gotham Condensed on page one, but it took a win for the Colts in Superbowl XLI to produce this whopper:... 

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Typeface: Gotham Condensed Bold and Black Primary season means banner headlines, and banner headlines mean condensed fonts . Typeface: Gotham Condensed Bold and Black Primary season means banner headlines, and banner headlines mean condensed fonts.... 

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Now appearing at Vanity Fair is a great exhibit of lobby cards from the collection of the late Leonard Schrader . From Schrader’s collection of 8,462 items the editors have chosen an attractive and representative set of 36 that celebrates the golden... 

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