From the makers of the beloved Helvetica documentary, comes Gary Hustwit’s next endeavor, Objectified. This new documentary explores objects that people come in contact with everyday, and the designers who design them. It features designers such as:
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich), Jonathan Ive (Apple, California), Jane Fulton Suri (IDEO) among others. Each giving their thoughts [...]

Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac. It has spread like a virus through the typographic world and shows the pervasiveness of Microsoft’s influence in the world.
 
Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, one of the most popular typefaces in the [...]

Contrast:
Robert Bringhurst, the consummate typographer writes, typography exists to honor content. Are we honoring the content, if we design our pages in such a way that the text, the content, is difficult to read?
Size:
Don’t set body text below 10 or 12px and, if possible, make it bigger.
If in doubt, make it bigger.
Hierarchy:
Varying type size is one of the [...]