The typeface Verdana was released in 1996 as an easy-to-read font for Websites, and in the intervening years, it has been used and misused in just about every imaginable way. For example, the Swedish ...

When Microsoft approached acclaimed typographer Matthew Carter to develop fonts explicitly for computer screens in the 1990s, Carter demurred. “My first reaction was, ‘I don’t want to do this,'” he ...

“Georgia and Verdana represented major milestones in the 1990s because they worked so well on screen and were among the first Web-safe fonts,” said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at ...

Thumbing through his local Swedish newspaper, Göteborg resident Mattias Akerberg found himself troubled by a full-page advertisement for Ikea. It wasn’t that the Grevbäck bookcases looked any less ...