A digital studio called Hello Velocity has created a typeface that embraces well-known corporate logos and is still somehow far less annoying than Comic Sans. The studio says it creates "thought ...

Monotype Imaging acquired the font business of rival Bitstream for about $50 million in cash, a move that gives it greater clout in the world of digital typography.

Helvetica is celebrated and loathed for its ubiquity. Now, the 62-year-old font is getting a face lift for the digital age. Jim Davis/Boston Globe via Getty Images hide caption ...

Adobe ad, 1987 via Fonts in Use. PostScript allowed designers to create just one copy of a font, and not have to worry about hand-tweaking a separate copy for every font size.

I started out as a graphics geek, long enough ago to remember pasteboards and waxers, and to define "font" as something on a strip of Compugraphic film. Then came digital type, and tools like ...