History of Typography

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• Typeface Error in The Boys in the Boat

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• The existence of a letter foundry is at stake

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• Are there any Texas Typographers?

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• Obscure Zapfiana: Zapf Chancery alternate glyphs never digitized

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• History of type communities, and its future?

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• Visible Language archive issues freely downloadable

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• Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting

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• Origins of PT Serif

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• Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)

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• When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?

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• Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'

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• A look at the Bulgarian Cyrillic Letter „в“ (uni0432 / uni0432.loclBGR)

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• Where to find old fonts?

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• Ben Franklin and printing paper money

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• Old-style Fonts?

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• Non-Latin blackletter

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• Chess Diagram Characters

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• Strange "p" from Griffo in Bembo's De Aetna

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• Serif Magazine (90s)

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• Aelyn - Influence or plagiarism?

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• Calibri Strikes Again

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• "Scotch Rules"

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• Witch Fever: William Morris' Claim to Infamy

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• Handwriting ? On An Old German Wool Soft Felt Hat Sweatband

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• Please help identify possible age of this carved Number?

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• A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)

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• Tilted font

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• Dictionary Diacritics

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• Did the printing press actually create more jobs for scribes - > AI today

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• Ancient Roman Geometric Sans.

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