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The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.
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The History of Graphic Design in Iran
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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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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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Le Romain du Roi
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Freda Sack Obituary
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Ľ vs L’
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U&lc collection
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The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection
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Font Identification Question
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Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting
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Rogers (for the Justowriter) Now Visible on the Web
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Horace Carr
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Please Help Identify
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Help to fund the exhibition of Joh. Enschedé’s items
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Women in History of Typography
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Fat-hatan on final Alef in Arabic
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Flickr will delete photos unless paid
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Monotype Series 72–74
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Looking for early examples of type designed for materials other than paper.
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May 2018
A reprint edition of Dutch Type is in preparation and you can now preorder it!
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