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The inimitable Jennifer Daniel, a Unicode Emoji Subcommittee-Chair, wrote about a new effort to take emojis back to their humble roots. Before we had our gleaming set of 3,633 emoji characters like ...

When ads for the Netflix show “Stranger Things” first appeared in 2016, the glowing, blood-red, unevenly shaded font that spelled out the title told viewers exactly what they could expect. The retro ...

In the design world, fonts are like cars. Type foundries routinely issue new models that range from high performance to overly stylized, from functional to ephemeral, some meant to fulfill ...