This year marks the 10th anniversary of Akira Kobayashi's tenure as type director at Linotype. Born in Tokyo in 1960, he studied graphic design at Musashino Art University. Kobayashi began his ...

The design process was time consuming, but not complicated. Gripping a calligraphy brush, the robot arm would dip the tip in black ink, then draw letters on paper sheets. El Abasiry controlled the ...

Type designers in the West have since cooked up many of their own versions of chop suey. Variations on the font are commercially distributed as Wonton, Peking, Buddha, Ginko, Jing Jing, Kanban ...

The artist and designer Seb Lester is the resident celebrity of Instagram calligraphy, with a half million followers, and another half million across other social-media platforms.

Hong Kong type designer Adonian Chan has created a new font called Beiwei Zansyu. It's a digitized version of Beiwei Kaishu, a Chinese calligraphy style that originated in 4th century China.

Master of calligraphy who designed some of the world’s best-known fonts, such as Palatino and Optima. UK News Website of the Year 2024 ... Hermann Zapf, font designer - obituary.

Sep 01, 2019 12:00:00 Tips for beginners to be able to write beautiful handwritten characters `` modern calligraphy '' with high design. Beautiful fonts are indispensable when designing something ...