typeface

The publisher HarperCollins has experimented with compact typefaces that require less ink and paper.

Walk into any bookshop and you’ll find that a good number of book covers feature Bodoni, a typeface created by Giambattista Bodoni in the late 18th century.

After 17 years of Calibri as Word’s default typeface, many users suddenly found themselves typing in a new typeface called Aptos.

The typeface Gutenberg used, which mimicked the look of calligraphic handwriting, is known as blackletter.

The sleek typeface and its many knockoffs have become so commonplace that they’ve become a meme, and the Guardian even declared it “the gentrification font.”