Fonts They Love to Hate, Part One: Origins of...

What's the strangest Christmas tradition you practice? In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max ring in the end of the year with an exploration of Christmas celebrations across the world -- and speculate on inventing a few of their own.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa ...  عرض المزيد

While the career of rhythm-and-blues vocalist Johnny Ace was short, he left a huge mark on the music world. Up until Christmas Day of 1954, Ace seemed set to reach genuine crossover success in pop music -- until, that is, he met his untimely end during an ill-fated game of Russia ...  عرض المزيد

If Comic Sans showed up at a house party, would it be welcome or shown the door? In this episode, the Wireframe team parties down with a wild array of fonts, good and bad, to learn about the rise of novelty typefaces like Comic Sans and the proliferation of the now all-too-famili ...  عرض المزيد

Are Google fonts a Graphic Designers best friend, or Graphic Design Trap?

On one hand, they provide Graphic Designers with free use of responsive, high quality fonts for use in print or online, with the most open commercial font licenses available. On the other hand.. ...

You may not think about it often, but it's everywhere—on billboards, in your emails, on your favorite websites, and perhaps even your company's logo. Yes, we're talking about fonts and, more specifically, Helvetica. Our latest Business Design Teardown explores the iconic typeface ...  عرض المزيد

What should happen to the fonts of days gone by‽ The guys first look to the stars and hope to find some answers from fonts named after their astrological signs. Finding no luck there, they decide it's time to hang it up and discuss font retirement. With all these new type re ...  عرض المزيد