History of Typography

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• Reviving French classics from the later Lead Age

  1.2K views 23 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard July 2020
• WF Wallenstein, another resurrected Art Nouveau type

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

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

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

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

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

  243 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Gary Long June 2020
• French vs. German book typeface

  2.8K views 18 comments 0 points Most recent by konrad ritter June 2020
• 1569, Granjon: quote, prime or apostrophe?

  417 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Matthijs Sluiter June 2020
• Which version/national cut of Times (New Roman)?

  1.3K views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by konrad ritter June 2020
• WF Ovid, another Art Nouveau resurrection

  700 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette May 2020
• Medieval Latin and Greek fonts

  477 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner May 2020
• Finished another Art Nouveau revival. This one fought me all the way; glad to see the back of it!

  656 views 27 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard April 2020
• Looking for a Specimen of "Ovid" by Heinz Keune, published 1903 by Schelter & Giesecke

  282 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) April 2020
• Caslon's Pica Gothic

  621 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason April 2020
• Portuguese type specimens

  591 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles March 2020
• Interesting Omega and Phi Inscription

  458 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Vassilis Georgiou March 2020
• I finished another Art Nouveau Revival: WF Maria Theresia. Check it out!

  613 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Cristóbal Henestrosa February 2020
• Detached ogonek and co.

  315 views 6 comments 7 points Most recent by Adam Jagosz February 2020
• Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

  394 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson February 2020
• Question about Panckoucke

  111 views 0 comments 0 points Started by ivan louette February 2020
• Who designed Prestige Elite?

  978 views 14 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard February 2020
• Purchasing old type-specimens

  956 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson January 2020
• Type making costs through the ages

  364 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Kaczun January 2020
• Granjon's late Cyrillics

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

  1.2K views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by tabisini January 2020
• Vienna’s Last Signpainter

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

  528 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

  131 views 0 comments 3 points Started by [Deleted User] January 2020
• Who owns DIN typeface? (Type questions about rights and public domain)

  1.3K views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev January 2020