Category: Typography

Font / Type Terms Demystified

What is a font? A font is a complete collection of letters, characters, and numbers within a particular typestyle. Letters, numbers, and symbols in consistent type-weight and typestyle make up a complete set (type family) of a distinctive design of printing type such as Ariel, Helvetica, Times Roman … Read More ›

adrian Frutiger, type design

Font legend of the Univers

As a designer one of the things I obsess over is typography and type design. My all-time favorite type designer was Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger designed more than 50 fonts and was the man behind the OCR-B, and the standard alphabet for character recognition. My go-to font is Univers … Read More ›