History of Typography

Discussion List

• Cairo Hieroglyph typecaster

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

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

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

  315 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos November 2020
• Mid-70s Lettering Effects Service

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

  462 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Joshua Langman October 2020
• Reason for this kind of double quotation marks

  1.5K views 39 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev October 2020
• 1917 Book of Letters: fun examples of Greek Type Design

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  384 views 10 comments 3 points Most recent by Scott-Martin Kosofsky June 2020
• MT Fournier digital, I

  167 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Gary Long June 2020
• French vs. German book typeface

  1.5K views 18 comments 0 points Most recent by konrad ritter June 2020
• 1569, Granjon: quote, prime or apostrophe?

  247 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Matthijs Sluiter June 2020
• Which version/national cut of Times (New Roman)?

  568 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by konrad ritter June 2020
• WF Ovid, another Art Nouveau resurrection

  353 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette May 2020
• Medieval Latin and Greek fonts

  280 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner May 2020
• Finished another Art Nouveau revival. This one fought me all the way; glad to see the back of it!

  535 views 27 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard April 2020
• Looking for a Specimen of "Ovid" by Heinz Keune, published 1903 by Schelter & Giesecke

  210 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) April 2020
• Caslon's Pica Gothic

  354 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason April 2020
• Portuguese type specimens

  510 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles March 2020