I knew the first time I spent a full hour watching every last Instagram story on my feed that the app had put something special out into the world. As if it wasn't already cool enough to have a window ...

One of Adobe Photoshop’s many talents at your disposal is the ability to create and decorate fonts. This tutorial is for beginners, and the instructions are applicable for Photoshop Creative Suite 1 ...

If you create documents or graphics for your clients in your business, you can install and use custom fonts to make your designs more interesting. TrueType technology -- TTF extension -- was developed ...

Behind the design of almost every typeface is an effort to balance curves with hard edges. But a new typeface from the agency Cotton Design uses just one shape—the backslash—to form every single ...

Illustrator allows you to write on the path of your artwork like shapes that you create. You may have an image that you saved in any of the file formats, and you want to write around it. This may ...

ClearType is a font technology that allows you to read the text for all periods. It is possible by the fact that it makes text on your screen almost as sharp and clear as text printed on paper, i.e., ...

Adobe has announced that they will end support for creating content with Type 1 fonts by January 2023. Here's how you can prepare to make the shift to more widely supported formats. It's always ...

A technology invented at the dawn of the desktop-publishing age is about to expire. Developed by Adobe way back in the early 1980s, PostScript Type 1 fonts—a way of encoding vector-based type designs ...

Research on reading, writing and human memory isn’t new. In fact, Cuneiform, the first Sumerian writing system, emerged in Mesopotamia more than 5,000 years ago. And since that time scholars have ...

Are you an Arial person? A Times New Roman? A Garamond? A Lucida Handwriting? So much of our communication is expressed in text these days that people become deeply attached to the typeface they use ...