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.

The font is all over the website for Curate Labs, a UK-based design studio that does work for Adidas, as well as Wonderland, a Netherlands-based design studio that does work for Nike.

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.