G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph ...

Aging eyes sometimes had a difficult time deciphering the lack of negative space in Highway Gothic lettering, causing letters to appear as amorphous blobs. The New York Times Magazine reported in ...

The edict was both covert and surprising: On Jan. 3 1941, Nazi official Martin Bormann announced that Hitler no longer wanted to see Gothic typefaces used in print. But the stated reason for this ...

The 1940s was a decade shaped by global conflict, post-war reconstruction, and the rise of Modernist ideals. And the typography of the era reflects these dramatic contrasts neatly, with the best ...

You know the alphabet—it’s one of the first things you’re taught in school. But did you know that they’re not teaching you all of the alphabet? There are quite a few letters (defined ...

Enter Highway Gothic, officially known by the far sexier moniker of Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Stand­ard Alphabets for Traffic-Control Devices.

Throw in a dictionary so he gets the full gothic horror of Gaiman’s rhyming couplets, which outline the nightmarish trip of two kids and a Disney-esque gazelle through a torture-chamber sewer.

“In 2004, The Museum of Modern Art approached typographer Matthew Carter about “refreshing” their icon MoMA, set in Franklin Gothic. Carter said it was, ‘like asking an architect to design an exact ...

Studies had found it more legible, and therefore safer, than the Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices---more commonly called Highway Gothic---which had gone largely unchanged for more ...

In UDEV Gothic, the shapes of alphabets and symbols and the width between lines have changed to make them easier to read. A major feature of UDEV Gothic is that 'double-byte space' is visualized.