Each month, Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) curates a new self-guided trail, inviting Angelenos to ...

These units are known as “dingbat”-style apartments — and that’s not a slight, that’s what they’re called apparently because of the midcentury-esque visual motifs on their exterior. Many even have a ...

Hermann Zapf, the German font designer who died Sunday, believed his famous Zapf Dingbats font should be used sparingly. Though Zapf Dingbats, which broke big when Apple integrated it into 1986’s ...

"The dingbat typifies Los Angeles apartment building architecture at its worst," California historian Leonard Pitto once declared. But the simple, boxy apartment buildings have become as beloved as ...

Before Apple’s LaserWriter Plus printer came along, the only exposure the general public would have had to the word “dingbat” was Archie Bunker’s use of it to insult his wife, Edith in the 1970s ...

The iconic musician and artist has published a book of his drawings and verse, alongside his musings on typographic nuances Earlier this month, former Talking Heads front man and pioneer of oversized ...

Paul Sellers, creator of the Dingbats puzzle phenomenon, has died aged 89. Dingbats has been one of the most popular items in The Mail on Sunday's puzzle pages since the paper's launch in 1982. Mr ...

A new pizza place has opened on a foodie corridor next to a downtown Lexington university. Dingbats Pizza quietly opened its garage door at 471 Jefferson St. on Oct. 22. The restaurant features pizza ...

Hermann Zapf was one of the most influential typographers of the early digital age. Following his death earlier this month, Rob Alderson, former editor-in-chief of It's Nice That, explains how the ...