Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf, a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing ...

You know those sexy, sans serif fonts in the movie 2001? They appear in the credits, but also on pretty much all the technical equipment on the spaceship. Well, now a font enthusiast has figured out ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Having difficulty getting your message across? Try an uglier font. Perhaps because people learn better when it’s a struggle to do so, content written in difficult-to-read fonts is more readily ...

Questions about the authenticity of memos related to President Bush's military service have put the art of setting fonts into the spotlight. NPR's Scott Simon discusses the science of font forensics ...

Erik and Martin Demaine, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers,” have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces. By Siobhan Roberts The verb “puzzle” — to perplex or ...

Cramming for exams, learning new languages, and remembering your to-do list can be tough — but a team of Australian researchers think they can help. They've developed a font called “Sans Forgetica” ...

Google Noto is a typeface that includes dozens of fonts for different languages and styles. It was released today for free for any kind of usage under the OFL license. As part of the project, you’ll ...

A mathematician once posed a deceptively simple question. Can a single 2-D conveyor belt be stretched around a set of wheels such that the belt is taut and touches every wheel without crossing itself?

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf, a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing ...