A Modernist Take On Frilly Fonts. February 12, 2011 8:00 AM ET. By . Callie Neylan Callie Neylan is a former NPR designer and currently teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

An elegant font for editorials and online magazines. The letters are slightly curved, with the well-balanced spacing - the letters aren’t either too close to each other or far apart. Where to use: ...

“It was like stepping into the future, a living exhibition of avant-garde design, a kaleidoscope of Constructivist billboards and modernist fonts,” recalled the designer Richard Hollis when ...

All of these details were added to Verdana by its designer Matthew Carter in 1996 when Microsoft commissioned him to create a font that would be easy to read on computers. His solution is a ...