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Fifth Century Athenian letter forms
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Russell McGorman
May 2016
Call for papers: Visible Language, 50th Anniversary Edition
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Kevin Larson
May 2016
Dfr in blackletter fonts
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Florian Hardwig
May 2016
Choosing a book on the quality of it's typography, online,
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May 2016
An HTML Hyperlink Typesetting Question
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May 2016
first use of arrows to indicate directions...
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Early superior letters
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Antiqua/blackletter mix
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Johnston Sans and Gill
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Imperial vs Gazette
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Kent Lew
March 2016
Interesting piece of letterform history
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Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
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Different width of ellipse?
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The Monotype Recorder (Digitalized)
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Edward Johnston's Birthday!
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Origins of Corporate typefaces
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What is “Unger” as an adjective?
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Short Monotype Descenders
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Blackletter font on a 1932 diploma
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typophile.com, helvetica & fascism
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Dating Lettering on a Stone Carving
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Clarkson Book Support alternatives
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Digital Times (New) Roman
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November 2015
You start blogging about fonts and this is what happens
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November 2015
First typeface with a name?
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October 2015
What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
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Gong—how did they do this?
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August 2015
Organizing, storing (or even bothering to keep) late 20th Century typefoundry ephemera
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On the microagression of U+1F4A9
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