History of Typography

Discussion List

• Granjon's late Cyrillics

  335 views 2 comments 12 points Most recent by Stefan Peev January 2020
• Request: examples of the Avoiuli writing system

  449 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by tabisini January 2020
• Vienna’s Last Signpainter

  261 views 6 comments 3 points Most recent by Nick Curtis January 2020
• Does any language use the straight quote as an orthographic letter?

  285 views 15 comments 1 point Most recent by John Hudson January 2020
• "A Near-Extinct Language Finds a Home in One Brooklyn" 100 Seke speakers in one building in Brooklyn

  93 views 0 comments 3 points Started by James Montalbano January 2020
• Who owns DIN typeface? (Type questions about rights and public domain)

  565 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev January 2020
• Greek ligatures in modern fonts

  575 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn January 2020
• The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.

  852 views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles January 2020
• The History of Graphic Design in Iran

  242 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by ibrahim kactioglu December 2019
• Non-Latin digital incunabula?

  211 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 2019
• Augustine in Plantin's Museum ?

  256 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette November 2019
• Blackletter numerals

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

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

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

  1.4K views 45 comments 4 points Most recent by NickCurtis September 2019
• Inspiration for Times New Roman

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

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

  304 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Karen Cheng August 2019
• favourite sources for metal type research

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

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

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

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

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

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

  936 views 16 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard June 2019
• Font Identification Question

  Closed 221 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by seanoconnor May 2019
• Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting

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

  947 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

  303 views 12 comments 6 points Most recent by John Savard March 2019