History of Typography

Discussion List

• Dry Transfer Lettering — Germany — perhaps circa 1970 ?

  274 views 18 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson November 16
• Augustine in Plantin's Museum ?

  45 views 0 comments 0 points Started by ivan louette November 16
• The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.

  674 views 28 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig November 16
• Who owns DIN typeface? (Type questions about rights and public domain)

  315 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Aaron Bell November 8
• Seeking specimens/examples for "Künstlerschrift Wodan", Stempel & Co. 1902/1906

  144 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) November 5
• Request: examples of the Avoiuli writing system

  203 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson October 30
• Blackletter numerals

  121 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by Vasil Stanev October 18
• Inks and Papers in the context of historical font revivals

  351 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev October 2
• Seeking additional specimens of "Fafner" by Schelter & Giesecke

  331 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) September 30
• Scrunch!

  1.2K views 45 comments 4 points Most recent by NickCurtis September 24
• Reason for this kind of double quotation marks

  961 views 34 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard September 18
• Inspiration for Times New Roman

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

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

  201 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Karen Cheng August 27
• Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces

  1.1K views 49 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini August 12
• favourite sources for metal type research

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

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

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

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

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

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

  632 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 201 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by seanoconnor May 31
• Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting

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

  661 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
• Rogers (for the Justowriter) Now Visible on the Web

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

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

  Closed 221 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by SiDaniels February 14