From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography
I’ve always felt like constructing printed math was much more of an art form than regular typesetting.
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Author: Joseph Fioramonti
How Futura Became The Most Ripped-Off Typeface In History
Companies from Best Buy to Forever 21 use Futura, but probably not the original. That’s because it has been endlessly reimagined, imitated, and blatantly ripped off.
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The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans
It was a tense summer day in 1835 Japan. The country’s reigning Go player, Honinbo Jowa, took his seat across a board from a 25-year-old prodigy by the name of Akaboshi Intetsu.
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What is a “serif” in Hebrew?
When calling a Hebrew typeface a serif or a sans serif, one borrows a typographical term from one script to describe another.
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11 Optical Illusions Found in Visual Design
You may not even realise it at first, but a lot of the techniques that you come across when working on an interface, logo or illustration are in fact optical illusions!
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