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Pressing On: The Letterpress Film
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Mark Simonson
February 2020
Question about Panckoucke
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ivan louette
February 2020
Who designed Prestige Elite?
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John Savard
February 2020
Purchasing old type-specimens
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John Hudson
January 2020
Type making costs through the ages
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Alex Kaczun
January 2020
Granjon's late Cyrillics
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Stefan Peev
January 2020
Request: examples of the Avoiuli writing system
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tabisini
January 2020
Vienna’s Last Signpainter
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Nick Curtis
January 2020
Does any language use the straight quote as an orthographic letter?
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Most recent by
John Hudson
January 2020
"A Near-Extinct Language Finds a Home in One Brooklyn" 100 Seke speakers in one building in Brooklyn
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[Deleted User]
January 2020
Who owns DIN typeface? (Type questions about rights and public domain)
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Vasil Stanev
January 2020
Greek ligatures in modern fonts
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Nick Shinn
January 2020
The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.
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Stephen Coles
January 2020
The History of Graphic Design in Iran
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ibrahim kactioglu
December 2019
Non-Latin digital incunabula?
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John Hudson
November 2019
Augustine in Plantin's Museum ?
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ivan louette
November 2019
Blackletter numerals
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Vasil Stanev
October 2019
Inks and Papers in the context of historical font revivals
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October 2019
Seeking additional specimens of "Fafner" by Schelter & Giesecke
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Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.)
September 2019
Scrunch!
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September 2019
Inspiration for Times New Roman
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Maxim Zhukov
September 2019
Interesting piece on Type Casting in California
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September 2019
Question: Characters in the Upper Case (diagram from Updike's Printing Types)
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Karen Cheng
August 2019
Le Romain du Roi
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Stephen Coles
August 2019
Freda Sack Obituary
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Claudio Piccinini
June 2019
Ľ vs L’
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Claudio Piccinini
June 2019
U&lc collection
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John S. Hall
June 2019
The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection
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George Thomas
June 2019
Never Mind Starling
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June 2019
Font Identification Question
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May 2019
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