“Font Detectives” Use Their Expertise to Solve High Stakes Cases

Detecting fraud via fonts isn’t as sexy as sleuthing art forgery; it often involves tedious measurements with digital calipers, examinations under loupes and microscopes, charts that track the slight differences between two versions of the Times Roman face, or evidence that a particular form of office printer didn’t exist at the document’s dated execution.

via https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-font-detectives-who-ferret-out-fakery/