Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ramona Koval: Contrary to popular belief, you can tell a book by its cover, that's if you look at the ...

We've seen the film Helvetica, read the Comic Sans jokes and heard the Vampire Weekend song that pays homage to Futura. Do we really need another lesson in the world's growing obsession with fonts? 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 ...

Are you an Arial person? A Times New Roman? A Garamond? A Lucida Handwriting? So much of our communication is expressed in text these days that people become deeply attached to the typeface they use ...

A book about font design and typography — what a snoozer, right? Wrong. “Just My Type,” on sale Thursday, is informative, delightful — and essential reading for word geeks everywhere. Simon Garfield, ...

You don't have to thrill at the curve of an ampersand to appreciate all that is Simon Garfield's "Just My Type: A Book About Fonts. " We may be closer to our fonts than ever before — we pick, we ...

Editor’s Note: Simon Garfield is the author of “JUST MY TYPE: A Book About Fonts”, published by Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group USA. Steve Jobs didn’t invent typefaces, of course; I think ...

Reading Simon Garfield’s delightful Just My Type will remind you of those high school teachers who’d get distracted and go off topic for half a class period—the interesting thing was that you usually ...

Flying in the face of the digital-age mantra that “print is dead,” Simon Garfield’s “Just My Type” takes an engaging look at the world of fonts, the building blocks of everything we read. With wit and ...

A generation ago the language of typography remained a sort of guild secret. Unless you worked in printing, design or parts of publishing, talk of fonts and point sizes was likely to be Greek to you – ...