History of Typography

Discussion List

• 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
• Greek ligatures in modern fonts

  1.3K 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.

  1.3K views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles January 2020
• The History of Graphic Design in Iran

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

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

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

  350 views 1 comment 2 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev October 2019
• Inks and Papers in the context of historical font revivals

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

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

  2K views 45 comments 4 points Most recent by NickCurtis September 2019
• Inspiration for Times New Roman

  662 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 [Deleted User] September 2019
• Question: Characters in the Upper Case (diagram from Updike's Printing Types)

  513 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Karen Cheng August 2019
• Le Romain du Roi

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

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

  1.6K views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini June 2019
• U&lc collection

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

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

  1.7K views 16 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard June 2019
• Font Identification Question

  Closed 241 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by seanoconnor May 2019
• Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting

  235 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian May 2019
• Type fiction

  1.9K views 57 comments 4 points Most recent by K Pease May 2019
• Rogers (for the Justowriter) Now Visible on the Web

  434 views 12 comments 6 points Most recent by John Savard March 2019
• Horace Carr

  401 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 2019
• Please Help Identify

  Closed 251 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by SiDaniels February 2019
• Help to fund the exhibition of Joh. Enschedé’s items

  483 views 12 comments 1 point Most recent by Ramiro Espinoza February 2019
• Women in History of Typography

  2.7K views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette November 2018
• Fat-hatan on final Alef in Arabic

  1.1K views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by AzizMostafa AzizAli November 2018
• Flickr will delete photos unless paid

  373 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by Stephen Coles November 2018
• Monotype Series 72–74

  264 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig October 2018