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In the January 1968 issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development, in one of several articles describing the development of the IBM Selectric Composer, there was a table showi… (View Post)

@"Fernando Mello" (Quote) The link on the page for Wodan indeed goes to a digitization of Klimschs Jahrbuch 1907. It’s hosted by HathiTrust and can only be accessed from the United States, … (View Post)

Good stuff, it’s quite uncommon to see these more organic and interesting German display stuff being revisited these days. My interest on this subject actually emerges from many years ago when I was … (View Post)

I run FLS5 on a VMware virtual Windows 10 machine under Mac OS Mojave. I use FL7 increasingly, but still go back to FLS5 for some things. The file ordering thing discussed on this thread is one of th… (View Post)

Having failed for months to get a days work out of FL7, I am pursuing moving back to FLS5 via virtual desktop products like Parallel. I found some help here above in Hrant's post from an older Fontla… (View Post)

Just as a further curiosity on the theme, I also found these (sort of) related types, ‘Liane’ and ‘Radium’, in a later Schelter & Giesecke catalogue I found years ago (undated). I find it particu… (View Post)

Thank you :) I haven't put my work in progress up on my website yet, but you can see it here: https://oliverw.smugmug.com/Typography/Work-In-Progress/n-h4nxQp/ (View Post)

@"Fernando Mello" Funny you should mention those two :D (Image) (View Post)

Edelgotisch was on my list as well, as one of the quintessential German Jugendstil typefaces, but it's already been done multiple times. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  (View Post)

FYI, all the specimens from Tholenaar’s book are physically at Letterform Archive, as the collection came to us in 2015. When you get the book you also have access to a database of scans on Taschen, … (View Post)