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Principle #3: Meet typographical contrast

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, contrast is the difference or the degree of difference between things having similar or comparable natures. Not far away from this definition, we can come across a different type of contrast: the typographical contrast. Want to know more about it? Then ke…

Principle #2: body height and glyph width

As some of you might know, there are a few ways you can measure up the size of a character. The most common one implies two different aspects that you must take in consideration: body height and body width. Today, we’re going to spice things up a bit and move our attention to another way of de…

The most recognisable fonts

After long hours of thinking about fonts, we have come to a significant conclusion: fonts are ubiquitous. They really are everywhere. We see them on books and movie posters, on clothing and school papers. We even see them on food. Remember the Alphabet soup, right? All in all, some fonts are easier …

Can fonts help us recall things better?

We all know the struggle of remembering all kinds of information. And, to be honest, we have already tried pretty much everything when it comes to writing important things down. Although, there’s one thing we have never tried before: writing things in hard-to-read fonts.

Why not Comic Sans MS?

The public enemy no.1 of all graphic designers, Comic Sans still remains one of the most known and used fonts in the entire world. But what makes us dislike it so much? Here is a short story about Comic Sans, the font we all love to hate.

Where do comic book fonts come from?

For at least 80 years, comic books were significant part of our popular culture and, oh well, of our lives. But we don’t know much about one of the most notorious fonts that ever existed: the comic book font.