“The signals that we can send are often quite small, like the symmetry of round shapes in the letter B,” says Tobias Frere-Jones, a designer whose work includes the font used by the 2008 Obama ...
It used to be easy. Your fonts were in a folder somewhere and used activation software (the word 'suitcase' meant something quite different to graphic designers than it did to holidaymakers) to ...
While working in an advertising agency, the 25-year-old font designer noticed that many traditional Chinese font sets were missing characters that only exist in Cantonese. This realisation sparked ...