typeface

Its name is a pun on the sans serif group of typefaces, and the island was depicted as being shaped like a semi-colon.

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.