History of Typography

Discussion List

• Reason for this kind of double quotation marks

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• Inspiration for Times New Roman

  517 views 20 comments 1 point Most recent by Maxim Zhukov September 7
• Interesting piece on Type Casting in California

  130 views 0 comments 2 points Started by James Montalbano September 2
• Question: Characters in the Upper Case (diagram from Updike's Printing Types)

  194 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by kcheng August 27
• Seeking additional specimens of "Fafner" by Schelter & Giesecke

  242 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini August 21
• Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces

  1K views 49 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini August 12
• favourite sources for metal type research

  264 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini August 8
• Le Romain du Roi

  245 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles August 8
• Freda Sack Obituary

  294 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by Claudio Piccinini June 26
• Ľ vs L’

  658 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini June 26
• U&lc collection

  500 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by John S. Hall June 7
• The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection

  349 views 6 comments 9 points Most recent by George Thomas June 3
• Never Mind Starling

  622 views 16 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard June 2
• German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat

  1K views 35 comments 0 points Most recent by Hutmann May 31
• Font Identification Question

  Closed 205 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by seanoconnor May 31
• Scrunch!

  1K views 44 comments 4 points Most recent by Russell_McGorman May 27
• Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting

  188 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian May 23
• A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)

  652 views 31 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard May 21
• Type fiction

  1.6K views 57 comments 4 points Most recent by K Pease May 18
• The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.

  419 views 21 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason April 12
• Rogers (for the Justowriter) Now Visible on the Web

  251 views 12 comments 6 points Most recent by John Savard March 30
• Horace Carr

  269 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 12
• Please Help Identify

  Closed 225 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by SiDaniels February 14
• Help to fund the exhibition of Joh. Enschedé’s items

  404 views 12 comments 1 point Most recent by Ramiro Espinoza February 14
• Chess Diagram Characters

  1K views 18 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard December 2018
• Women in History of Typography

  394 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette November 2018
• Fat-hatan on final Alef in Arabic

  340 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by AzizMostafa November 2018
• Flickr will delete photos unless paid

  342 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by Stephen Coles November 2018
• Monotype Series 72–74

  228 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig October 2018
• Greek ligatures in modern fonts

  276 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner October 2018