If you're conscientious, you think carefully about the words you choose, whether it's an e-mail message or a formal report. Making yourself clearly understood helps you get your message across and ...

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It used to be easy. Your fonts were in a folder somewhere and used activation software (the word 'suitcase' meant something quite different to graphic designers than it did to holidaymakers) to ...

Web site Dafont.com offers a huge, easy to browse repository of free fonts. Several readers have mentioned Dafont in the past, so I figured it was about time I checked it out, and frankly, I'm ...

An old book – the smell, the texture of the slowly rotting paper, and the smudges and margin notes accrued over decades – is one of the finer points in life taken for granted much too often. We’re ...

Thanks to subscription platforms like Typekit, licensing fonts for web use isn’t all that expensive or difficult any more. But there are plenty of free options, too–like Google Fonts, a collection of ...

If you simply want to feel more knowledgeable while choosing your fonts, FontExplorer X Pro 7 is a relatively affordable ticket into the wonderland of discovering and pairing your fonts While an up-to ...

Is anyone else weirdly fixated by fonts? I find them endlessly fascinating — and for those of you in the same metaphorical boat, someone just created a browser extension that’s pretty much made for us ...

Photoshop may have “photo” in its name, but it is designed for all manner creative possibilities, including working with text. It’s also expandable, not limited to the fonts that come pre-installed or ...

Few pieces of Mac software can claim the history of PopChar, a utility that makes it a click and a hover to see the appearance of individual characters in fonts installed on your Mac. Released in 1987 ...