The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This collection of type specimen ...

When choosing a typeface to use for a project, there is no replacement for a printed type specimen. Fonts just look different when you see them in print, compared to how they look on screen. So, when ...

Scripts: Elegant Lettering From Design's Golden Age is a stunning, sentimental book on fonts that resemble handwriting "We started gathering materials for the book by just going through the shelves of ...