History of Typography

Discussion List

• Purchasing old type-specimens

  155 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer 11:50AM
• Granjon's late Cyrillics

  210 views 2 comments 12 points Most recent by Stefan Peev January 24
• Type making costs through the ages

  201 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer January 22
• Request: examples of the Avoiuli writing system

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

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

  263 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

  84 views 0 comments 2 points Started by James Montalbano January 7
• Who owns DIN typeface? (Type questions about rights and public domain)

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

  426 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.

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

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

  207 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 2019
• Augustine in Plantin's Museum ?

  197 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette November 2019
• Dry Transfer Lettering — Germany — perhaps circa 1970 ?

  397 views 22 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini November 2019
• Seeking specimens/examples for "Künstlerschrift Wodan", Stempel & Co. 1902/1906

  167 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) November 2019
• Blackletter numerals

  128 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by Vasil Stanev October 2019
• Inks and Papers in the context of historical font revivals

  367 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev October 2019
• Seeking additional specimens of "Fafner" by Schelter & Giesecke

  348 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) September 2019
• Scrunch!

  1.3K views 45 comments 4 points Most recent by NickCurtis September 2019
• Reason for this kind of double quotation marks

  991 views 34 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard September 2019
• Inspiration for Times New Roman

  545 views 20 comments 1 point Most recent by Maxim Zhukov September 2019
• Interesting piece on Type Casting in California

  134 views 0 comments 2 points Started by James Montalbano September 2019
• Question: Characters in the Upper Case (diagram from Updike's Printing Types)

  222 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Karen Cheng August 2019
• Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces

  1.1K views 49 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini August 2019
• favourite sources for metal type research

  270 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini August 2019
• Le Romain du Roi

  297 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles August 2019
• Freda Sack Obituary

  297 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by Claudio Piccinini June 2019
• Ľ vs L’

  802 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini June 2019
• U&lc collection

  494 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by John S. Hall June 2019
• The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection

  365 views 6 comments 9 points Most recent by George Thomas June 2019