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Granjon's late Cyrillics
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Stefan Peev
January 2020
Request: examples of the Avoiuli writing system
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tabisini
January 2020
Vienna’s Last Signpainter
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Nick Curtis
January 2020
Does any language use the straight quote as an orthographic letter?
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John Hudson
January 2020
"A Near-Extinct Language Finds a Home in One Brooklyn" 100 Seke speakers in one building in Brooklyn
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James Montalbano
January 2020
Who owns DIN typeface? (Type questions about rights and public domain)
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January 2020
Greek ligatures in modern fonts
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Nick Shinn
January 2020
The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.
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January 2020
The History of Graphic Design in Iran
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December 2019
Non-Latin digital incunabula?
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Augustine in Plantin's Museum ?
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Blackletter numerals
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Inks and Papers in the context of historical font revivals
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Seeking additional specimens of "Fafner" by Schelter & Giesecke
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September 2019
Scrunch!
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Inspiration for Times New Roman
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Interesting piece on Type Casting in California
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Question: Characters in the Upper Case (diagram from Updike's Printing Types)
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August 2019
favourite sources for metal type research
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Le Romain du Roi
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Freda Sack Obituary
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Ľ vs L’
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The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection
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June 2019
Never Mind Starling
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June 2019
Font Identification Question
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May 2019
Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting
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May 2019
A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
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May 2019
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