Comics conjecture tends to revolve around story and illustration, with journalists and fans giving borderline-exclusive attention to those two trades while neglecting the more subtle elements of the ...

Over the past few years, I kept bumping into something called Hershey fonts. After digging around, I found a 1967 government report by a fellow named Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. Back in the 1960s, he ...

In a major leap forward for comic book lettering technology, Comicraft has unveiled its first font featuring their new "Crossbar I" technology. View this post on Instagram. The font claims to be able ...

Why should medieval monks take all the credit for the art of illumination? Sure countless hours were spent in the abbey’s scriptorium inking up a single letter, but let’s fast forward to the hipsters ...

If there were ever a typeface Mecca, during the sixties it was Photo-Lettering Inc., in New York City. With thousands of photo fonts at the ready, this was where pilgrims and art directors from ...