Feature: Typography
Rub-down revolution
A generation before home computers, Letraset’s dry transfer lettering made desktop typography possible –…
Type specific
TDC hails the wider world of empathetic wine labels, typographic IDs and retro stationery
Painted thrills and spills
Fred Fowle was the UK’s foremost fairground artist. His go-faster graphics and futuristic lettering live…
A tradition with breaks
Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and…
Quiet man of letters
Alan Bartram brought a perceptive eye to alphabetic detail in public spaces. Catherine Dixon pays…
Carter’s battered stat
Modernism and monograms
Both artisan and art director, Hermann Eidenbenz was a subtle master of Swiss design.
A Monotype timeline
A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype
Stanley Morison: Changing the Times
In 1929 Monotype’s typographical adviser, Stanley Morison, published an article critical of the design…
Beatrice Warde: Manners and type
Sara De Bondt introduces a transcript of a rediscovered 1959 interview with Warde.
