Type History

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• Origins of Corporate typefaces

  995 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by Miles Newlyn February 2016
• What is “Unger” as an adjective?

  692 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by erik spiekermann February 2016
• Short Monotype Descenders

  871 views 28 comments 1 point Most recent by Max Phillips February 2016
• A Database of American Typeface Design Patents (1842-1899)

  225 views 5 comments 4 points Most recent by Scott-Martin Kosofsky February 2016
• Blackletter font on a 1932 diploma

  173 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Christian Thalmann January 2016
• typophile.com, helvetica & fascism

  633 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Maurice Meilleur January 2016
• Dating Lettering on a Stone Carving

  334 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Hugh Wood December 2015
• Clarkson Book Support alternatives

  154 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by PabloImpallari December 2015
• Digital Times (New) Roman

  1.2K views 2 comments 7 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney November 2015
• You start blogging about fonts and this is what happens

  531 views 16 comments 3 points Most recent by Chris Lozos November 2015
• First typeface with a name?

  650 views 10 comments 4 points Most recent by Nick Shinn October 2015
• What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?

  2K views 44 comments 0 points Most recent by Deleted Account September 2015
• Gong—how did they do this?

  972 views 22 comments 0 points Most recent by kupfers August 2015
• Organizing, storing (or even bothering to keep) late 20th Century typefoundry ephemera

  182 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles June 2015
• On the microagression of U+1F4A9

  337 views 6 comments 1 point Most recent by David Sudweeks March 2015
• This is not good

  781 views 21 comments 1 point Most recent by Russell McGorman March 2015
• What will the future of typography look like?

  2.3K views 33 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman March 2015
• An older Sami alphabet – unencoded characters?

  244 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner March 2015
• Two articles about lost and recovered type (in Toronto and London, respectively)

  226 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by joeclark February 2015
• Type ID: pre 1850s Didone

  202 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by jakob_runge February 2015
• Design variation between metal sizes of the same typeface

  446 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by Wes Adams February 2015
• Fontsleuth: Lego instructions from the 1970s?

  463 views 9 comments 2 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney December 2014
• Inspired by François Guyot's work

  383 views 6 comments 1 point Most recent by Martin Silvertant November 2014
• Pre-digital typeface drawings question.

  2.3K views 31 comments 0 points Most recent by Martin Silvertant November 2014
• Alkmaar S

  535 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland November 2014
• Did European typesetters produce specimens?

  548 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Filip Blazek September 2014
• The New and Wonderful History of TrueType

  354 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by Deleted Account August 2014
• Cultural cringe?

  852 views 16 comments 1 point Most recent by Georg Seifert August 2014
• Origin of Monotype Plantin

  585 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Deleted Account July 2014
• Collection de spécimens de caractères - 1517-2004

  132 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Stephen Coles July 2014