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The 1990s ushered in a radical new era for typography, as the rise of desktop publishing democratised font design and unleashed unprecedented creative experimentation. What emerged was a wild mix of ...
Most notable of the era's typography trends was the rise of the International Typographic Style, a movement originating in Switzerland that emphasised clarity, objectivity and functionality. For this ...
Eliza Brooke is a freelance journalist based in Washington, DC. If there is one style of corporate branding that defines the 2010s, it is this: sans-serif lettering, neatly presented in black ...
It's Typography Week, and we're delving into the the history of sans serif, one of the most iconic typefaces in use today.Literally translating to ‘without serif’, this typeface can be mapped ...
The Verge first pointed this out with a fun animation that switches between the two logos. Google changed its logo to a"flat" sans-serif look last week. Lenovo, a Chinese tech company that owns ...
Released in 1928, Gill Sans was meant to be the British response to a collection of dominant German sans-serif typefaces, and it was immediately successful: Within a year, the London and North ...
Designed in 1994 and inspired by comic-book speech bubbles, the ubiquitous sans-serif font has become the typeface that designers love to hate and even has a website dedicated to its abolition. "I ...
There are two things that I will always geek out on: comic books and typography. I can talk for hours about either. And when I can geek out on both at the same time? That’s my definition of ...