History of Typography

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• Phototype services around the world

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• Looking for Richmond Old Style Bold Compressed

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• A Grand Romance

  158 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian April 10
• TypoGraphic Journal STD

  320 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie April 8
• Margo Chase & Madonna

  397 views 22 comments -1 point Most recent by Nick Shinn April 5
• German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat

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• What does the OpenType font "Open" mean?

  364 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by GregHitchcock March 24
• A Mythical DIN

  283 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer March 21
• Centidot Contempora (ry) from Photo-Lettering

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• Série 16

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• Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces

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• Chess Diagram Characters

  2.1K views 31 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard February 21
• Characteres Elzeviriens: another French beauty from the Lead Age

  963 views 59 comments 1 point Most recent by Claudio Piccinini February 15
• A look at the Bulgarian Cyrillic Letter „в“ (uni0432 / uni0432.loclBGR)

  173 views 8 comments 2 points Most recent by John Hudson February 14
• The Number sign—now and then—across languages.

  392 views 31 comments 1 point Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian February 7
• Bradbury Thompson, Alphabet 26, 1950 – permissions for book

  271 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Daniel Benjamin Miller January 26
• Knuth Scotch

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• Herbert Bayer

  171 views 1 comment 4 points Most recent by John Nolan January 4
• WF Schelter Antiqua, another resurrected Art Nouveau type

  341 views 12 comments 1 point Most recent by Claudio Piccinini December 2020
• Hanzi machine

  251 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Curtis December 2020
• Book and Regular – who started?

  162 views 4 comments -1 point Most recent by Matthijs Sluiter December 2020
• Cairo Hieroglyph typecaster

  81 views 0 comments 1 point Started by ivan louette December 2020
• Question about identifying font type

  231 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Jörgen December 2020
• Strange "p" from Griffo in Bembo's De Aetna

  313 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard November 2020
• Will digital fonts ever enter the retro fashion cycle?

  311 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos November 2020
• Mid-70s Lettering Effects Service

  826 views 20 comments 0 points Most recent by Ralph Smith November 2020
• Looking for information on early-twentieth-century letterpress book face

  435 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Joshua Langman October 2020
• Reason for this kind of double quotation marks

  1.4K views 39 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev October 2020
• 1917 Book of Letters: fun examples of Greek Type Design

  313 views 4 comments 5 points Most recent by Jacob Casal August 2020
• WF Habsburg, another Art Nouveau Revival, fresh from the oven!

  142 views 4 comments 2 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) August 2020