History of Typography

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• Bradbury Thompson, Alphabet 26, 1950 – permissions for book

  195 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Curtis January 24
• Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces

  1.8K views 85 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 23
• Knuth Scotch

  667 views 32 comments 0 points Most recent by Daniel Benjamin Miller January 18
• The Number sign—now and then—across languages.

  249 views 28 comments 1 point Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 8
• Herbert Bayer

  173 views 1 comment 4 points Most recent by John Nolan January 4
• Characteres Elzeviriens: another French beauty from the Lead Age

  556 views 42 comments 1 point Most recent by konrad ritter December 2020
• WF Schelter Antiqua, another resurrected Art Nouveau type

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

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

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

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

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

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

  309 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos November 2020
• German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat

  1.2K views 38 comments 0 points Most recent by Hutmann November 2020
• Mid-70s Lettering Effects Service

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

  417 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

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

  130 views 4 comments 2 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) August 2020
• Looking for Black Pepper originals

  204 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney August 2020
• Extinct Oxford/Aitken?

  256 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard August 2020
• Dry Transfer Lettering — Germany — perhaps circa 1970 ?

  736 views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney July 2020
• ATF Typesetter Brochure Available

  167 views 1 comment 5 points Most recent by Russell McGorman July 2020
• Seeking specimens/examples for "Künstlerschrift Wodan", Stempel & Co. 1902/1906

  395 views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) July 2020
• Reviving French classics from the later Lead Age

  694 views 23 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard July 2020
• WF Wallenstein, another resurrected Art Nouveau type

  122 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles July 2020
• Ismar David's typefaces for Photo-Lettering

  206 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by María Ramos July 2020
• Napoleon – the grandfather of smileys? (a 1881 find)

  148 views 2 comments 4 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev July 2020
• Unusual italic F in Times

  207 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Deactivated User July 2020
• Milton Glaser, type designer

  322 views 10 comments 3 points Most recent by Scott-Martin Kosofsky June 2020