It’s a familiar problem for any designer: You’re walking down the street when you spot a glorious typeface in the wild–something that would be perfect for the project you’ve been working on. But you ...

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Think you know fonts like the back of your hand? This new quiz might just test your memory and patience – and all with a little gentle motivation from Owen Wilson. Typeface spot the difference game ...

A new real-world font scanning and automatic color picking device, Spector, may soon be hitting store and/or digital shelves soon — a Shazam for text formatting! Currently not marketed and lacking a ...

Do you want to know the best chrome extensions to identify fonts used in a live web page? You might want to know the font of a certain web page that is being used and you don’t know what the font is.

Is anyone else weirdly fixated by fonts? I find them endlessly fascinating — and for those of you in the same metaphorical boat, someone just created a browser extension that’s pretty much made for us ...

If you’re a designer, you’ll know that font selection can make or break the effectiveness of your work. Often times when I’m away from home I’ll see signs and ads with perfect type on them, and snap a ...

Attention typography nerds: a new doodad called The Spector identifies fonts so you can stop getting it wrong. Among the millions of techie innovations that we didn't know we needed until we had it, ...

Thanks to subscription platforms like Typekit, licensing fonts for web use isn’t all that expensive or difficult any more. But there are plenty of free options, too–like Google Fonts, a collection of ...