On 25 September 2007, a woman named Vicki Walker committed a type crime so calamitous that it cost her not only her job, but almost her sanity. Walker was working as an accountant in a New Zealand ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A house sign is usually a finishing touch, often cut by lasers in a digitised font such as Ariel or Times New Roman.

Font families can sell for hundreds of dollars. Gotham, a popular typeface used by President Barack Obama’s campaign and many others, costs nearly $1,000 to license a complete set of 66 different ...

"Before the invention of letters, the body was our communication medium. Even today, the body is still one of the most important means of communication. Typography is what is created when speech and ...