GREAT IDEAS IN TYPOGRAPHY! TYPE has been one of the words in DT&G Magazine (or "Design, Typography & Graphics") since its debut in 1988. CHECK OUT this month's articles on designing with negative space using typography, fonts, letterforms, and layouts with fonts and type! Be sure to send in your favorites and you could win some juicy prizes! RSS

Which type styles are best?

Which type face to use has been a frequent question since there were fonts... and particularly with the advent of desktop publishing. Everyone is a designer, but not everyone knows which fonts to use. January 29, 2010

Type is more than letters

When is typography more than just letters, fonts and faces? When it's used in the illustration process as bendable, foldable, curvable, and moldable. These are superb examples of typographic illustration December 29, 2009

Logo Design Tips

Golden arches. A "swoosh" sign. A man on a horse holding a polo mallet. What kind of attention goes into a good logo? Here's a few brief but important tips December 18, 2009

Fonts: Your Own Handwriting

Here's a great idea -- for yourself or for a gift: YourFonts.com is an online service that allows you to make a TrueType font out of your handwriting December 10, 2009

New Gallo Fonts

We've got a bunch of new fonts to show off -- all created by Gerald Gallo! His picture and dingbat fonts are a specialty with a new quilt pattern font along with flowers, fish and birds, and a family of new display fonts called Dots. November 13, 2009

October Surf's Up for Fonts

It's October again and our annual fonts surf continues with more typographic discoveries including A Charming Font, and a special Halloween font from Graham Meade; some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles thanks to Neale Davidson, new Ambigrams; the logo for a community website called Typedia; and a glowing love for the ampersand! September 29, 2009

Delicious typography discoveries

The 15th Annual Fall Fonts Festival fonts surf ends with and look at some spectacular examples of most unusual typography from Google Earth land mass lettering to beautiful scripts in the sand September 29, 2009

Cooper Misunderstood

The Cooper typeface is quite often misunderstood by the graphic design community -- but they're usually thinking about Cooper Black, when the Cooper Old Style type family is quite a nice face! September 29, 2009

Visual Proofreading: 10 Rules

Visual proofreading helps you cull out the visual mistakes just like you would typos. It's an important step in the design process that helps you sharpen your design skills and produce better publications. September 25, 2009

William Morris: Art Nouveau Style

William Morris is probably the most recognized individual in the entire Art Nouveau movement -- but what most people don't know is that he also contributed his style and art vision to type and typography as well. September 21, 2009