History of Typography

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• The existence of a letter foundry is at stake

  399 views 3 comments 4 points Most recent by donat raetzo December 1
• Visible Language archive issues freely downloadable

  421 views 9 comments 6 points Most recent by konrad ritter November 28
• Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting

  806 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson November 7
• Origins of PT Serif

  746 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by Fiz de la Peña October 28
• Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)

  386 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney October 27
• When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?

  936 views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard October 11
• Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'

  1.9K views 36 comments 0 points Most recent by Miles Newlyn September 25
• A look at the Bulgarian Cyrillic Letter „в“ (uni0432 / uni0432.loclBGR)

  603 views 10 comments 3 points Most recent by John Savard August 29
• Where to find old fonts?

  947 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig July 30
• Ben Franklin and printing paper money

  224 views 1 comment 2 points Most recent by Mark Simonson July 25
• Old-style Fonts?

  446 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson July 12
• Evert Bloemsma and FF Balance

  443 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by elliott June 26
• Non-Latin blackletter

  518 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by Vasil Stanev June 21
• Chess Diagram Characters

  4.7K views 56 comments 2 points Most recent by Alan Bernard Hughes June 17
• Strange "p" from Griffo in Bembo's De Aetna

  675 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by kfeuerherm May 22
• Serif Magazine (90s)

  312 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by Christopher Slye May 17
• Aelyn - Influence or plagiarism?

  612 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Matthew Smith April 19
• Calibri Strikes Again

  524 views 5 comments 5 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney April 10
• "Scotch Rules"

  653 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson April 6
• Witch Fever: William Morris' Claim to Infamy

  146 views 0 comments 2 points Started by John Savard March 31
• Handwriting ? On An Old German Wool Soft Felt Hat Sweatband

  262 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Hutmann March 21
• Please help identify possible age of this carved Number?

  305 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Dan Reynolds March 5
• A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)

  2K views 33 comments 1 point Most recent by glennflei February 17
• Tilted font

  525 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by Yves Michel January 28
• Dictionary Diacritics

  323 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer December 2022
• Did the printing press actually create more jobs for scribes - > AI today

  862 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev December 2022
• Ancient Roman Geometric Sans.

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

  659 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard November 2022
• Obscure Zapfiana: Zapf Chancery alternate glyphs never digitized

  407 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

  735 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn August 2022