Typography

The incredible aesthetic and design choices of retro arcade games is undeniable. Chunky, chiptune soundtracks and pixelated blocky letters are indelibly linked to the video games of the '70s, '80s, and beyond. For all you nostalgic nerds, there's a handsome coffee table book to celebrate the world of pixel typeface.…

Long gone are the days of having to pass document files back and forth over email or thumb drives because Google Docs completely revolutionized the word processor. Google Docs makes collaboration easy, is free to use, and available on any device that can get an Internet connection. But there have…

Derived from the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design and compiled by editors from Phaidon, Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter covers five hundred of the most influential designs produced over more than half a millennium. From the first sample of movable type and the Nuremburg Chronicle of the fifteenth century to…

We're suckers for great packaging. Toss a product in something with a cool font and some nice colors and you'll have our attention. And while some items on the shelves these days make us stop and take notice, most pale in comparison to the products of yore. Don't believe us?…

We've been fans of Andrew Capener's typography-focused versions of Scrabble since he started making them. (Here's the first version, and here's the second version.) If we have one complaint, however, it's that the games were really made for the collector, the superfan of stylish fonts and competitive gaming with an empty display…