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Bradbury Thompson, Alphabet 26, 1950 – permissions for book
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January 24
Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces
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Knuth Scotch
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The Number sign—now and then—across languages.
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Herbert Bayer
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WF Schelter Antiqua, another resurrected Art Nouveau type
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Hanzi machine
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Book and Regular – who started?
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Strange "p" from Griffo in Bembo's De Aetna
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Will digital fonts ever enter the retro fashion cycle?
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German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat
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Mid-70s Lettering Effects Service
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Looking for information on early-twentieth-century letterpress book face
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Reason for this kind of double quotation marks
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1917 Book of Letters: fun examples of Greek Type Design
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WF Habsburg, another Art Nouveau Revival, fresh from the oven!
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Looking for Black Pepper originals
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Extinct Oxford/Aitken?
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Dry Transfer Lettering — Germany — perhaps circa 1970 ?
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ATF Typesetter Brochure Available
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Reviving French classics from the later Lead Age
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July 2020
WF Wallenstein, another resurrected Art Nouveau type
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Ismar David's typefaces for Photo-Lettering
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Napoleon – the grandfather of smileys? (a 1881 find)
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Unusual italic F in Times
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Milton Glaser, type designer
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