History of Typography

Discussion List

• Characteres Elzeviriens: another French beauty from the Lead Age

  1K views 59 comments 1 point Most recent by Claudio Piccinini February 2021
• A look at the Bulgarian Cyrillic Letter „в“ (uni0432 / uni0432.loclBGR)

  213 views 8 comments 2 points Most recent by John Hudson February 2021
• The Number sign—now and then—across languages.

  431 views 31 comments 1 point Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian February 2021
• Bradbury Thompson, Alphabet 26, 1950 – permissions for book

  292 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Daniel Benjamin Miller January 2021
• Knuth Scotch

  948 views 32 comments 0 points Most recent by Daniel Benjamin Miller January 2021
• Herbert Bayer

  171 views 1 comment 4 points Most recent by John Nolan January 2021
• WF Schelter Antiqua, another resurrected Art Nouveau type

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

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

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

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

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

  335 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

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

  494 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  173 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Gary Long June 2020