History of Typography

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• Handwriting ? On An Old German Wool Soft Felt Hat Sweatband

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• Please help identify possible age of this carved Number?

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• A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)

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• Chess Diagram Characters

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• Tilted font

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• Dictionary Diacritics

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• Did the printing press actually create more jobs for scribes - > AI today

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• Ancient Roman Geometric Sans.

  552 views 6 comments 5 points Most recent by Craig Eliason December 2022
• “Type is a beautiful group of letters…” Who said this?

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• Obscure Zapfiana: Zapf Chancery alternate glyphs never digitized

  301 views 7 comments 3 points Most recent by John Butler October 2022
• Does anyone know who invented ink traps, or what year they were first used

  368 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn August 2022
• Notes on the rendering of Garamond and Caslon typefaces when set at small sizes. Also, a request.

  691 views 22 comments 0 points Most recent by Fiz de la Peña August 2022
• Grotesk / Grotesque

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• Josef Pichler & Sons, Graz paper bag

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• German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat

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• Grawlixes

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• The Serif: An attempt at deciphering its etymology

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• Historic Shop and Company Signs in Vienna

  109 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Helmut Wollmersdorfer April 2022
• Origins and ancestors of "My Happy 70s" by Jan-Henrik Arnold

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• Aelyn - Influence or plagiarism?

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• 80's font idendtification

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• Printers’ (Typographers’) Rulers

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• Large specimen book storage

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• Photo Typeface?

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• Some interesting magazine typography from 1988 .

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• What is the correct term for combining italic lowercase with upright roman caps?

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• Origins of PT Serif

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• A Grand Romance

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• The origins of letter-spaced justification

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• Font Submissions in the 1970's

  558 views 15 comments 3 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig December 2021