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Fifteenth Century and Jenson
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George Thomas
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Authentic naive 17th century “grotesque” or postwar power tool disimprovement?
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What is sharp S
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London Pixel Typeface
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Florian Hardwig
February 9
Slashed and crossed digits anywhere …?
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What do I change when editing SIL Open Source typeface?
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Typeface Error in The Boys in the Boat
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Mark Simonson
December 2023
The existence of a letter foundry is at stake
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Are there any Texas Typographers?
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Obscure Zapfiana: Zapf Chancery alternate glyphs never digitized
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History of type communities, and its future?
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Visible Language archive issues freely downloadable
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Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
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Origins of PT Serif
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Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
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When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
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Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
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A look at the Bulgarian Cyrillic Letter „в“ (uni0432 / uni0432.loclBGR)
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Where to find old fonts?
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Ben Franklin and printing paper money
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Old-style Fonts?
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Evert Bloemsma and FF Balance
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Chess Diagram Characters
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Serif Magazine (90s)
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Aelyn - Influence or plagiarism?
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Calibri Strikes Again
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"Scotch Rules"
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