Over the past few years, I kept bumping into something called Hershey fonts. After digging around, I found a 1967 government report by a fellow named Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. Back in the 1960s, he ...

Before the advent of Letraset and the Apple Computer, custom, hand-drawn lettering was a feature of headline type. Individualistic, dynamically stylised letterforms bursting with character appeared on ...

While designers today may pay close attention to the kerning and tracking of letters on a screen, one arts trust wants to remind people that the traditional craft of letter carving shouldn’t be ...