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Deciphering Cities: The Secret Languages of Utility Markings, Hobo Codes & Graffiti Tags

Most cities have so much in common that a generic "map of every city" can seem similarly familiar to people living in London, Paris, New York or another metropolis entirely. General types of ...

Touchable Typeface: Ingenious Fonts Combine Visual & Braille Characters

Braille type is often included as alongside conventional letters, but "Braille Neue" typesets blend both visible and tangible characters in the same space, creating hybrid alphabets that anyone ...

Future Fonts: Tracing the Role of Typography in Science Fiction in Films

Whether intentionally retro, as in Stranger Things, or overtly futuristic, as in RoboCop, the role of typography in a movie goes well past the title, subtly but powerfully shaping the world ...

Book-Shaped Pavilion in Korea Celebrates Historic Birthplace of Printing

In 1377, nearly a century before the famous Gutenberg Bible was printed in Germany, the Jikji anthology was made using movable metal type, then bound and and protected for centuries to ...

Type Face: Monumental Figurative Sculptures Made of Text

Giant human figures made of jumbled steel letters loom over public spaces in a series of monumental typographic sculptures by artist Jaume Plensa. The contemplative seated figures seem to watch ...

Architecturally Literate: 13 Built Alphabets Spell Design

For those in love with letters, typography is - or should be - virtually everywhere, from furniture to office buildings. These 13 designs indulge typophiles with three-dimensional typefaces in ...

Fonts to Faces: 9 Personality-Rich Typographies as Portraits

As humans, we are programmed to anthropomorphize our surroundings. So what would happen if the letters on pages conveyed meanings others than the words they represented ... say, actual (versus ...

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