Type History

Discussion List

• Purchasing old type-specimens

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

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

  532 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

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

  534 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

  132 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
• Greek ligatures in modern fonts

  1.4K 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

  282 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 ?

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

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

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

  822 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

  132 views 0 comments 2 points Started by [Deleted User] September 2019
• Question: Characters in the Upper Case (diagram from Updike's Printing Types)

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

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

  311 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

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

  1.8K views 16 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard June 2019
• Font Identification Question

  Closed 244 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by seanoconnor May 2019
• Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting

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

  1.8K views 57 comments 4 points Most recent by K Pease May 2019
• Rogers (for the Justowriter) Now Visible on the Web

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