In this age when electronic modes of communication rule, it’s comforting to know some people still strive to uphold the delicate art of painstakingly etched handwriting. The members of the ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Public Services Librarian Katherine Gale compiled this month’s selections.

There’s certainly no shortage of tattooers in the fine art world these days, and there’s a wealth of tattooers focused on turning the alphabet into an art form, but there’s really only one Los Angeles ...

Sometimes the journey is as important as the destination. So it is for Emil J. Polak as he strides into the Bibliothèque Méjanes here. It is the 728th library -- nearly all of them in Europe -- that ...

The art of spacing is one of the most difficult aspects of working with letters. But anyone who works with letters extensively knows that good spacing is often more important than good letters. In ...

Emailing, tweeting, texting — 20 years ago, these things were unheard of. Now, we can’t live without them. Although the advances in technology are amazing, we can lose some things along the way, as ...

the light of humans’ blazing cornerstone. I’m certainly not the first to write about the lost art of letter writing — an art that has been usurped by technology, texts and tweets. From TED Talks to ...