After at least 15 years of debating whether I should spend money on this, I recently took the plunge and acquired one of my most-desired Prince collectibles....

In a blog post that I wrote for work today , I had occasion to use an interrobang as part of a title. Hooray! A chance to exercise some pointless effort in...

Ten years ago, then-Microsoft fontographer Vincent Connare launched the Comic Sans Cafe . During 1994 I noticed that a large number of cartoon/comic style...

A spadia is a page wrapped around the spine of a periodical so as to appear as a narrow flap or partial page. Now you know....

I made a bunch of improvements to my Daily Links , with more on the way. The blog is AtomEnabled , the layout and font size are improved, the explanatory tex...

After Andy shut down Lines & Splines , I was afraid we wouldn’t get great work like his review of the typography of the Wall Street Journal redesign. I...

This is the thing I want you to remember, for the next time that you need it: (And I hope that next time is soon.) ö is created by the ö entity. Thank you, I...

Jim Parkinson (whom you know from his logotypes and font designs) has an extremely engaging collection of sign photos from around the world. Go check it ou...

Nina is a cool little font. It’s like Microsoft Silkscreen . And, while you read about it, now might be a good time for me to point out again that there i...

If you’re running Windows XP and have ClearType enabled, you can tune your settings over at the Microsoft Typography website....

I am quite occupied writing emails to people I met in Texas, because I am trying to be sincere without sounding like an ass-kisser. Interestingly, I keep findi...

I like the bright, pretty colors on takarajimasha ‘s site. Especially on the little animated phone....

Neat little insight into how to construct the letterforms for a font . I feel so illiterate when I realize I hadn’t even heard of some of these characters…...

Molly Holzschlag makes a great observation about negative space in the Fedex logo: > Look at the shape formed by the space between the E and the x. I...

Microsoft Blog? Didn’t know that the form was so adaptable, but there is actually a blog of sorts running on Microsoft’s typography site, it’s called Typograp...