History of Typography

Discussion List

• First typeface with a name?

  493 views 10 comments 4 points Most recent by Nick Shinn October 2015
• What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?

  1.5K views 44 comments 0 points Most recent by Deleted Account September 2015
• Mid-70s Lettering Effects Service

  620 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by erik spiekermann August 2015
• Gong—how did they do this?

  776 views 22 comments 0 points Most recent by kupfers August 2015
• Organizing, storing (or even bothering to keep) late 20th Century typefoundry ephemera

  183 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles June 2015
• On the microagression of U+1F4A9

  300 views 6 comments 1 point Most recent by David Sudweeks March 2015
• This is not good

  730 views 21 comments 1 point Most recent by Russell McGorman March 2015
• What will the future of typography look like?

  1.9K views 33 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman March 2015
• An older Sami alphabet – unencoded characters?

  237 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner March 2015
• Two articles about lost and recovered type (in Toronto and London, respectively)

  216 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by joeclark February 2015
• Type ID: pre 1850s Didone

  186 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by jakob_runge February 2015
• Design variation between metal sizes of the same typeface

  261 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by Wes Adams February 2015
• Fontsleuth: Lego instructions from the 1970s?

  429 views 9 comments 2 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney December 2014
• Inspired by François Guyot's work

  272 views 6 comments 1 point Most recent by Martin Silvertant November 2014
• Pre-digital typeface drawings question.

  1.6K views 31 comments 0 points Most recent by Martin Silvertant November 2014
• Alkmaar S

  352 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland November 2014
• Did European typesetters produce specimens?

  479 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Filip Blazek September 2014
• The New and Wonderful History of TrueType

  357 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by Deleted Account August 2014
• Cultural cringe?

  795 views 16 comments 1 point Most recent by Georg Seifert August 2014
• Origin of Monotype Plantin

  380 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Deleted Account July 2014
• Collection de spécimens de caractères - 1517-2004

  135 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Stephen Coles July 2014
• Best value in historical reproductions

  356 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Ofir Shavit June 2014
• Codex, reincarnated

  214 views 4 comments 3 points Most recent by James Puckett June 2014
• Catich's "third book"?

  124 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos June 2014
• The best way to reproduce old printed specimens

  1.1K views 18 comments 1 point Most recent by Dave Crossland June 2014
• The ‘Punctus’ and his Friends: Medieval Punctuation

  106 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos May 2014
• How would you characterize today's typographic trend?

  748 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos May 2014
• A new research on Hebrew type face design

  160 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by Jeff Kellem May 2014
• Best type specimen book ever? 1907 Types of the De Vinne press

  210 views 1 comment 9 points Most recent by Stephen Coles March 2014
• can someone explain the origin of the os/2 table's name?

  1.4K views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by Dave Crossland November 2013