The Capitalist: Ian Mckellan goes off-script at Olivier Awards

Dispatch from the Olivier Awards, Jeremy King and AI sermons; catch up on the latest gossip in this week's The Capitalist.
Queen City Nerve

PostScript Is One Couple’s Love Letter to Their East Charlotte Neighborhood

Couple Amber Donoghue and Dean Orr opened PostScript in a beloved east Charlotte space to spread love to their Plaza-Shamrock ...
Pride Source

Lose the Tiara, Find the Flannel: Inside the Rise of the Butchlorette Party

For decades, the cultural script for a bachelorette party has been aggressively consistent: matching pink T-shirts with a ...
中国日报网

Ancient script gets upgrade for digital age

The Chinese characters for Yongle Dadian, using the newly developed digital font. CHINA DAILY A style of calligraphy once used to record one of ancient China's most ambitious scholarly projects is ...
The New York Times

Is Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department?

The State Department’s decision to stop using the Calibri typeface in favor of Times New Roman shook one community far removed from the workings of government: type designers. “I love it when, once in ...
The New York Times

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts. By Michael ...
HuffPost

Here's What Actual Graphic Designers Think Of THAT Trump Oval Office Sign

President Donald Trump’s renovation plans for the White House seem to include some very tacky signage. As Trump prepared to embark to Miami to speak at the America Business Forum on Wednesday, White ...
Sixth Tone

The ‘Archeologists’ Unearthing China’s Pre-Digital Fonts

Wang Tingrui spends much of his free time searching online bookstores for dictionaries, novels, and other publications from the last century. He carefully looks at the product photos, zooming in on ...