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 ...

Lettering is a piece of the comics industry that gets overlooked quite a bit. Beyond just the lettering that we see on the page, there is an entire world behind that page, which involves balloon ...

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 ...

In the pursuit of pixel-perfect typography, have we lost the origins of its artistry in place of efficiency? We talk to contemporary typographers as well as stone letterers who are keeping the origins ...

Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time. Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time. Switch to the dark mode that's ...

(SPOT.ph) You can’t scroll through your Instagram feed these days without seeing at least one hand-lettered quote or song lyrics written in calligraphy. Chances are, those posts even get a double-tap ...

Photoshop CS6 Extended tutorial showing how to make a chalkboard effect for text and free-hand drawings.