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Two articles about lost and recovered type (in Toronto and London, respectively)
joeclark
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February 2015
edited February 2015
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History of Typography
Toronto Star
: “
That time an impressive collection of 20th-century typography was thrown in the trash
”
BBC video: “
Lost typeface printing blocks [that would be the Doves Types] found in River Thames
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Marc Oxborrow
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February 2015
Links aren't working.
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Stephen Coles
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February 2015
Fixed. Something about the list item HTML was breaking the links. I’ll ask the forum service what’s up.
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Marc Oxborrow
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February 2015
Thanks, Stephen (and Joe).
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joeclark
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February 2015
Valid HTML, and I previewed it twice. But it is not atypical for forum software not to know what valid HTML is.
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joeclark
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Oddly, “Doves Type” came to be used so often so fast that one of the lexicography blogs-cum-sites, Wordnik,
cited it on its Word Buzz Wednesday
(sic) feature.
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