Charles Nix: Uproar Over State Department Font Switch

“As the State Department’s infamous ‘Times (New Roman) Are a-Changing’ Memo demonstrates, typography is about more than just typefaces. It’s also about how those typefaces and fonts are used.” Charles Nix, highlights the growing importance of typography in our daily lives, and the impact that font choice can have on accessibility and legibility, particularly when it comes to optical character recognition (OCR) technology.

Read the full article here from Charles Nix, Executive Creative Director at Monotype writing for Graphic Design USA.