In this artful alphabet by the Madrid-based design studio CESS, "V" is for van Gogh and "F" is for Frida. The featured pop and modern artists lend themselves well to alphabet letters. Sometimes they ...

Since the advent of cuneiform, we’ve designed written language to be a two-dimensional medium. Whether we’ve scribbled across a flat tablet or a piece of binder paper, we haven’t had to alter our ...

Handwriting is so unique to an individual, it can be used in court to identify suspects and victims. But what would happen if you took all the different ways people around the world write the Latin ...

Graphic designer Margaret Calvert has created a customised typeface named Rail Alphabet 2, which will be used for station signage across the UK. Designed for Network Rail, the typeface is an update of ...

The ABC has revealed it spent $32,750 on creating its own font. The question of the cost of the OneABC typeface was first raised in Senate estimates in May to new managing director Michelle Guthrie by ...

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Richard Aedy: Right at the top of the program, we heard from Michael McKinnon of The Australian. There's a certain circularity about today, because The Australian is where we're going to finish.

In a sign that no matter is too small to affect international diplomacy, the US State Department has issued an edict banning its longtime standard typeface from all official correspondence and ...