Why we call capitalized letters 'uppercase' and non-capitalized letters 'lowercase'
For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names due to capital letters being stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...
SLO’s street signs are infamous now — but they haven’t always been. See how they looked before
In May 1941, the city proposed buying 112 signs from the Lyle Sign Company in Minneapolis. If that did not satisfy residents ...
Wake-up call: The cultural impact of typography
It’s easy to feel that our work as designers is just a drop in the ocean, but design decisions—whether big or small—shape ...
Boing Boing on MSN2d
Convert normal text to Unicode homoglyphs to look silly, cool or clever
Q and Z (formerly at Panix) is a hidden pillar of the old web, converting text to appear to be upside-down, in a ...
Korean Air replaced its iconic logo for the first time in 40 years
Korean Air rebrands for the first time in 40 years with a simplified new look by Lippincott designed to reach global ...
The Great British Railways logo has a lot riding on it. Here's how it could look
For Great British Railways, the obvious colourway route to go down would be red, white or blue, but perhaps GBR might go down ...