History of Typography

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• Portuguese type specimens

  443 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles March 16
• Interesting Omega and Phi Inscription

  172 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Vassilis Georgiou March 4
• I finished another Art Nouveau Revival: WF Maria Theresia. Check it out!

  333 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Cristobal Henestrosa February 23
• Detached ogonek and co.

  235 views 6 comments 7 points Most recent by Adam Jagosz February 20
• Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

  335 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson February 20
• Question about Panckoucke

  107 views 0 comments 0 points Started by ivan louette February 15
• What is sharp S

  857 views 50 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard February 5
• Who designed Prestige Elite?

  643 views 14 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard February 3
• Purchasing old type-specimens

  383 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson January 30
• Type making costs through the ages

  305 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Kaczun January 27
• Granjon's late Cyrillics

  257 views 2 comments 12 points Most recent by Stefan Peev January 24
• Request: examples of the Avoiuli writing system

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

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

  271 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

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

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

  455 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  364 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

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

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

  135 views 0 comments 2 points Started by James Montalbano September 2019