And a word, written in black letter, uncial, Copperplate Script, Roman capitals, or even the “Star Wars” font by a professional, has all the virtues of those far more complicated handmade things.

The X-height is the size of the lowercase letters. Notice how small the lowercase letters are in the Semia Script SSi typeface. A 10-point font with a large X-height will look larger on the page ...

Microsoft Word offers a variety of cursive and handwriting fonts (or typefaces, which is the more accurate name for the different font styles), and they’re actually provided by the operating ...

Traces of Steve Jobs’ brilliance are found everywhere: The iOS ecosystem, the app store revolution, and the modernization of personal electronics. But one of his most inspiring and influential ...

What Father Palladino taught him about letters, fonts and typefaces eventually became a practical part of Jobs’ billion ... Much of the calligraphy that interested Jobs was introduced ...

“Calligraphy fits in well in that period because it was a time when the art of calligraphy flourished,” said Kandee Lojas, 55, of North Huntingdon, who teaches seventh and eighth graders ...