Can you imagine typing up an email, sending it off, and being told by the recipient that its contents were gobbledygook? Of course not. For most of us, whatever we type is instantly legible to our ...

Fonts are used by all of us, yet understood by very few. Where do fonts come from? Who makes them? How do we know which one to use? And why are there so many? Most new fonts are designed to fulfill a ...

The story of Chinese characters begins with, of all things, turtle bellies. The kings of the Shang Dynasty—which ruled from the 16th to the 11th centuries BC—had questions. Questions about what the ...