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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garfield’s new book tracks the history of Comic Sans, from its kitschy speech-bubble origins to design-school anathema, and along ...

Pity Comic Sans, the font that people love to hate. Developed by Vincent Connare in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans is what author SIMON GARFIELD describes as “type that has gone wrong” in his book “JUST MY ...

Printed type is no mere neutral conveyor of ideas but an artistic medium in its own right, with psychological, social, and even sexual overtones, according to this lively romp through the history of ...

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 ...