Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost. Here's how we got from desktop PostScript in the early '80s to today. When the Mac first ...

If you create documents or graphics for your clients in your business, you can install and use custom fonts to make your designs more interesting. TrueType technology -- TTF extension -- was developed ...

Along with the typographic freedom Mac users have always enjoyed, there have often been strange font conflicts, inexplicable font substitutions, and even system crashes related to corrupt fonts. Mac ...

As the bugs targeted by minor releases to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard become increasingly specific, it’s easy to become complacent about the possibility of an update introducing a new problem. That, ...

If you keep running into unsupported fonts on your iPad or iPhone with Pages, Keynote, or another app, AnyFont is here to help. The $1.99 app lets you install additional fonts in the TrueType font ...

Since the days of individual cast-metal fonts for each size of your typeface, type-enthusiasts have dreamed of ways of creating nicer, more elegant, more useful, more unique glyphs. Nowadays, you can ...

Readers offer their best tips for installing new fonts into iOS, hiding stock apps in iOS 7.1, and assigning hotkeys for switching windows in Windows. Every day we receive boatloads of great reader ...