The handwritten letter was tucked inside not one but a series of three envelopes. It was postmarked Dec. 29, 1930. It had been sent by artist Grant Wood , 5 Turner Alley, Cedar Rapids, to Mrs ...

Aging eyes sometimes had a difficult time deciphering the lack of negative space in Highway Gothic lettering, causing letters to appear as amorphous blobs. The New York Times Magazine reported in ...

Requiemme Decorum ( free), a display typeface by California designer Gene Buban, combines the dark beauty of traditional blackletter with the gothic quality of light as seen through cathedral glass.