History of Typography

Discussion List

• 1569, Granjon: quote, prime or apostrophe?

  162 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Matthijs Sluiter June 5
• Reviving French classics from the later Lead Age

  345 views 11 comments 1 point Most recent by konrad ritter June 5
• Which version/national cut of Times (New Roman)?

  418 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by konrad ritter June 1
• French vs. German book typeface

  1K views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Cristobal Henestrosa May 23
• WF Ovid, another Art Nouveau resurrection

  188 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette May 20
• Medieval Latin and Greek fonts

  190 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner May 17
• Chess Diagram Characters

  1.4K views 19 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard April 21
• Finished another Art Nouveau revival. This one fought me all the way; glad to see the back of it!

  505 views 27 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard April 13
• Looking for a Specimen of "Ovid" by Heinz Keune, published 1903 by Schelter & Giesecke

  178 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) April 9
• Caslon's Pica Gothic

  278 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason April 5
• Portuguese type specimens

  476 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles March 16
• Interesting Omega and Phi Inscription

  179 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Vassilis Georgiou March 4
• I finished another Art Nouveau Revival: WF Maria Theresia. Check it out!

  344 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Cristobal Henestrosa February 23
• Detached ogonek and co.

  239 views 6 comments 7 points Most recent by Adam Jagosz February 20
• Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

  346 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson February 20
• Question about Panckoucke

  109 views 0 comments 0 points Started by ivan louette February 15
• What is sharp S

  867 views 50 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard February 5
• Who designed Prestige Elite?

  661 views 14 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard February 3
• Purchasing old type-specimens

  398 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson January 30
• Type making costs through the ages

  319 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Kaczun January 27
• Granjon's late Cyrillics

  279 views 2 comments 12 points Most recent by Stefan Peev January 24
• Request: examples of the Avoiuli writing system

  355 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by tabisini January 21
• Vienna’s Last Signpainter

  267 views 6 comments 3 points Most recent by Nick Curtis January 14
• Does any language use the straight quote as an orthographic letter?

  279 views 15 comments 1 point Most recent by John Hudson January 13
• "A Near-Extinct Language Finds a Home in One Brooklyn" 100 Seke speakers in one building in Brooklyn

  92 views 0 comments 3 points Started by James Montalbano January 7
• Who owns DIN typeface? (Type questions about rights and public domain)

  546 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev January 6
• Greek ligatures in modern fonts

  516 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn January 4
• The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.

  826 views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles January 3
• The History of Graphic Design in Iran

  241 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by ibrahim kactioglu December 2019
• Non-Latin digital incunabula?

  216 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 2019