Trying to figure out what font was used in an image or on a web site can be quite tedious. What Font is not only scans your sample for matches but it also displays both free and commercial matching ...

As designers, marketers, and fans of the Helvetica documentary know, picking a font is one of the most important decisions in the creation of Web and print materials. One of the best tools to help ...

Designers have been bemoaning the state of typography in the browser since the dawn of the web. However, CSS 3 and the @font-face rule go a long way toward improving your font options. Throw in tools ...

And does the distinction even matter anymore? We ask design experts Gary Hustwit, Eddie Opara, and Tobias Frere-Jones to weigh in. One of the major traps, when talking about type, is mixing up fonts ...

The Garamond font has been around for centuries. The original typeface was created in the 1500s by French engraver Claude Garamond. It is described as an "old-style serif" font, inspired by Roman ...

If there’s a topic that’s bound to get designers riled up into a fiery debate, it’s the issue of choosing the best font for reading to use on the screen. For most of the web’s life, designers haven’t ...

What did Comic Sans ever do to us? The font was one of the typefaces preloaded onto Windows 95—where it stuck out like a sore thumb alongside more stately options like Arial and Times New Roman—and as ...