History of Typography

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• Strange "p" from Griffo in Bembo's De Aetna

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• Serif Magazine (90s)

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

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

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

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• Witch Fever: William Morris' Claim to Infamy

  126 views 0 comments 2 points Started by John Savard March 31
• 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)

  1.8K views 33 comments 1 point Most recent by glennflei February 17
• Chess Diagram Characters

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• Tilted font

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

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

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

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

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

  309 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

  452 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.

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

  451 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Daniel Riley June 2022
• Josef Pichler & Sons, Graz paper bag

  654 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn May 2022
• German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat

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• Grawlixes

  281 views 4 comments 3 points Most recent by Linus Romer April 2022
• The Serif: An attempt at deciphering its etymology

  423 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Rob Barba April 2022
• Historic Shop and Company Signs in Vienna

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

  220 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Cory Maylett April 2022
• 80's font idendtification

  273 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Marc Oxborrow March 2022
• Printers’ (Typographers’) Rulers

  474 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner March 2022
• Large specimen book storage

  147 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney February 2022
• Photo Typeface?

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• Some interesting magazine typography from 1988 .

  586 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos February 2022