It’s the sheer pleasure of those old Hollywood movies with archaeologists breaking ... and one which makes us wonder why the whole world doesn’t just speak English and write with the Latin script! If ...

or just plain old worship them. Let your imagination run wild. Celebrated writer Virginia Woolf and English poet Vita Sackville-West exchanged a series of love letters to each another that were ...

The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish invaders whose hegemonic rule did so much to wipe out the ancient Maya script ... much like English letters do.

Musk's blackletter MAGA hat is drawing comparisons to Nazi lettering from the 1930s. Was it an accident or a troll?

Repetition Using repeating patterns or shapes can add interest - for instance, using a certain shape or line type as the basis for a lettering design. Negative space The empty space between ...

Musk’s blackletter “Make America Great Again” hat ignites controversy over historical and provocative design choice.

On August 20, 2024, the government of Bihar initiated land surveys and settlements. Following the announcement, people started retrieving old ancestral land ...

We asked essayists to write a letter to the person they were when they published their Modern Love essay. Here’s what they shared. Modern Love We asked essayists to write a letter to the person ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

A 17th century ring found by a metal detectorist in Hesket has been formally classified as treasure, a coroner has declared.

If you cruise into East L.A., you’ll quickly find street art featuring designs of roses, chains, and hearts, elaborate calligraphy like Old English Script, and even religious symbols ...

In our series of letters from African journalists ... The move is likely to reopen an old controversy over the use of Arabic script, which some see as an attempt to Islamise the country.