Watford doesn’t have many architectural features, but the one building of any merit it does have is its college. Erected in the 1930s it as good a building as you’ll find in the town. Significant too that is was, for over half a century, home to one of the best schools of printing in the country. But...

Yesterday I made my first visit to the redeveloped St Pancras Station. Stunning! Like many typographers I have a fascination with railways and there are many parallels between type and trains: the metal, the structures, the engineering, the smell, the undeniable sense of power and energy. As well as...