Before talkies, type mattered enormously to movies, though the typists rarely got their due. A film festival has spurred the resurrection of one of those antique letter faces.

An antique font for comics is a thick typeface which is also called antigoch, a combination of Mincho and comic bodies. The difference in thickness is smaller than ordinary antechs, and the design ...

Now, he and his partner of 28 years, acclaimed designer Louise Fili, are back with Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age —a treasure chest of typographic gems culled from ...