American and British patents, for comparison. There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while our American friends seem to ...

Pixel fonts represent an interesting era of type design. They were born out of necessity when low-res displays were the only ones around, and have now become a highly niche style of retro nostalgia.

Older arcade games such as ' Space Invaders ' and ' Pac-Man ' used bitmap fonts expressed on an 8x8 grid to save space. A movie has been released to explain how the fonts for arcade games were ...