The restyled New York Times homepage features italicized headlines–a bold move given that a modest body of research on digital type suggests using italics with caution. You can see just about anything ...

Editor’s note: Lisa Prejean is on a retreat this week with her high school students. This column originally was published in 2012. In a recent class, I received several blank stares as I tried to ...

We’ve been writing quite a bit lately about ebooks and their potential as a distribution mechanism (and maybe even revenue driver) for journalism. Whether it’s Foreign Policy, The New York Times, ...

Popular messaging app WhatsApp got a neat new update for Android, adding a number of cool features such as formatting and others, preparing the app for Android N. Formatting means that you can now ...

Italics are not categorised among punctuation marks but their functions are related. A style of writing in which the letters slant or lean to the right, the italic type indicates specific information ...

Smileys, animal symbols, little hearts: emojis are usually the go-to visual tool in chat messages. But there is another way — ...

Italics can make all the difference when writing. Whether you're placing emphasis on a certain word, italicizing titles of works, or just jazzing up your notes with some formatting, the style often ...