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Re: Photo Lettering by Bruno specimen book

Jesse R Ewing

May 22

Thanks all. I couldn't say why, but my gut told me it was a special find. It's good to hear the experts agree! Happy to share. I need to shout out to Keith at Cranky Press for being generou…

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Re: Photo Lettering by Bruno specimen book

Stephen Coles

May 22

Yep, that’s the most Filmotype I’ve seen in one catalog. (This one comes second.) Nice find, Jesse, and thank you for sharing!

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Re: Photo Lettering by Bruno specimen book

Florian Hardwig

May 22

Thanks a bunch for sharing, Jesse! Apart from being a wonderful window into commercial typography from that period, it’s a great resource that will help narrowing down the dates of some of Filmotype’…

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Photo Lettering by Bruno specimen book

Jesse R Ewing

May 21

I just wanted to share a fun find that I don't believe I've run into anywhere online. It's a specimen book put out by the Linotype Composition Company of Baltimore, Maryland, a photo t…

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Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.

Igor Petrovic

April 30

So far during license checks, no client has disputed the font in question. Could be discussions on whether they respected the license or not. But I still haven't got the reply: "That's…

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CIↃ in print

Andreas Stötzner

May 19

I try to chase specimen of this version of printing the number [Roman] M = 1000, which one finds sometimes on title pages. A quick search only got me two samples from coins (but the principle is the …

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Re: CIↃ in print

michele casanova

May 19

Something like these?* https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t3kw6dx9j&seq=11 * https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8wznQSXf6xMC/page/n5/mode/2up

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Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.

Typedesigner

May 16

I think you are probably right about the technical trajectory. Models that are trained on documents rather than font binaries may eventually render the distinction between 'font software' a…

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