History of Typography

Discussion List

• Dry Transfer Lettering — Germany — perhaps circa 1970 ?

  426 views 22 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini November 2019
• Seeking specimens/examples for "Künstlerschrift Wodan", Stempel & Co. 1902/1906

  190 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) November 2019
• Blackletter numerals

  151 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by Vasil Stanev October 2019
• Inks and Papers in the context of historical font revivals

  378 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev October 2019
• Seeking additional specimens of "Fafner" by Schelter & Giesecke

  389 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) September 2019
• Scrunch!

  1.3K views 45 comments 4 points Most recent by NickCurtis September 2019
• Reason for this kind of double quotation marks

  1K views 34 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard September 2019
• Inspiration for Times New Roman

  559 views 20 comments 1 point Most recent by Maxim Zhukov September 2019
• Interesting piece on Type Casting in California

  137 views 0 comments 2 points Started by James Montalbano September 2019
• Question: Characters in the Upper Case (diagram from Updike's Printing Types)

  254 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Karen Cheng August 2019
• Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces

  1.2K views 49 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini August 2019
• favourite sources for metal type research

  284 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini August 2019
• Le Romain du Roi

  338 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles August 2019
• Freda Sack Obituary

  299 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by Claudio Piccinini June 2019
• Ľ vs L’

  929 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini June 2019
• U&lc collection

  497 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by John S. Hall June 2019
• The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection

  387 views 6 comments 9 points Most recent by George Thomas June 2019
• Never Mind Starling

  736 views 16 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard June 2019
• German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat

  1.1K views 35 comments 0 points Most recent by Hutmann May 2019
• Font Identification Question

  Closed 218 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by seanoconnor May 2019
• Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting

  188 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian May 2019
• A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)

  784 views 31 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard May 2019
• Type fiction

  1.6K views 57 comments 4 points Most recent by K Pease May 2019
• Rogers (for the Justowriter) Now Visible on the Web

  277 views 12 comments 6 points Most recent by John Savard March 2019
• Horace Carr

  300 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 2019
• Please Help Identify

  Closed 226 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by SiDaniels February 2019
• Help to fund the exhibition of Joh. Enschedé’s items

  406 views 12 comments 1 point Most recent by Ramiro Espinoza February 2019
• Women in History of Typography

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

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

  362 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by Stephen Coles November 2018