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typophile.com, helvetica & fascism
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Maurice Meilleur
January 2016
Dating Lettering on a Stone Carving
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Hugh Wood
December 2015
Clarkson Book Support alternatives
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December 2015
Digital Times (New) Roman
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Thomas Phinney
November 2015
You start blogging about fonts and this is what happens
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Chris Lozos
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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September 2015
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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Stephen Coles
June 2015
On the microagression of U+1F4A9
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David Sudweeks
March 2015
This is not good
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March 2015
What will the future of typography look like?
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Russell McGorman
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An older Sami alphabet – unencoded characters?
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Andreas Stötzner
March 2015
Two articles about lost and recovered type (in Toronto and London, respectively)
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February 2015
Type ID: pre 1850s Didone
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Design variation between metal sizes of the same typeface
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February 2015
Fontsleuth: Lego instructions from the 1970s?
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Inspired by François Guyot's work
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November 2014
Pre-digital typeface drawings question.
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Alkmaar S
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November 2014
Did European typesetters produce specimens?
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September 2014
The New and Wonderful History of TrueType
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August 2014
Cultural cringe?
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August 2014
Origin of Monotype Plantin
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July 2014
Collection de spécimens de caractères - 1517-2004
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Stephen Coles
July 2014
Best value in historical reproductions
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Ofir Shavit
June 2014
Codex, reincarnated
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James Puckett
June 2014
Catich's "third book"?
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Chris Lozos
June 2014
The best way to reproduce old printed specimens
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June 2014
The ‘Punctus’ and his Friends: Medieval Punctuation
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May 2014
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