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• Old neon signage in Germany

  72 views 0 comments 9 points Started by Andreas Stötzner August 2017
• This Just In: Linotype Master Drawings

  372 views 3 comments 9 points Most recent by Kent Lew August 2017
• Two Types: The Faces of Britain

  762 views 13 comments 4 points Most recent by KP Mawhood August 2017
• "Two Types: The Faces of Britain" – BBC documentary on monday

  282 views 0 comments 2 points Started by KP Mawhood July 2017
• Gutenberg's B42's x-height?

  152 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Ramiro Espinoza July 2017
• Joshef Moxon lead of imaginary langage made for John Wilkins

  282 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by Simon Cozens June 2017
• There's two variants of old cursive/script lowercase d – rules on usage?

  1K views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn June 2017
• ‹y› with a clear baseline

  311 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn June 2017
• Paul Renner’s Die Kunst der Typographie

  215 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Sander Pedersen May 2017
• Where is Arabic Italic originating from?

  3.2K views 28 comments 0 points Most recent by Georg Seifert May 2017
• Information regarding a late 17th-18th century Dutch colonial document

  341 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Robin Mientjes May 2017
• Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?

  2K views 61 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian April 2017
• Q: "Moderately modern, but not futurist, book jacket design by Morrison"?

  312 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson March 2017
• Collecting/sharing unusual symbol designs

  162 views 0 comments 8 points Started by Wolf Böse March 2017
• (non-related) Hunting for paper Watermarks

  92 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by James Puckett March 2017
• Douglas McMurtrie biography

  132 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Dan Reynolds March 2017
• Type Identification (Historical)

  1.3K views 14 comments 1 point Most recent by Fernando Díaz February 2017
• William Morris Work (Hi-Def)

  232 views 1 comment 6 points Most recent by Chris Lozos February 2017
• Bram de Does Documentary

  322 views 3 comments 2 points Most recent by Ramiro Espinoza February 2017
• The Invention of the Arabic Typewriter

  513 views 4 comments 5 points Most recent by Deleted Account February 2017
• Modular type: your help finding good examples needed

  1.7K views 32 comments 4 points Most recent by Matt Heximer February 2017
• Merchant of Alphabets

  1.2K views 25 comments 8 points Most recent by Doug Wilson February 2017
• An interesting logotype

  322 views 11 comments 4 points Most recent by Nick Shinn February 2017
• Fonts.com Promo - Dwiggins Fact Check

  172 views 1 comment 12 points Most recent by Nick Sherman December 2016
• Monospaced fonts

  282 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn December 2016
• Information about a typeface: Bruce

  372 views 7 comments 1 point Most recent by James Puckett November 2016
• History of Spurless Typefaces

  673 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian November 2016
• Authoritative source for the ATypI Vox classification

  161 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney November 2016
• Super Grotesk scans

  753 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Thierry Blancpain October 2016
• Which historical designs are known as some of the best italics ever drawn?

  283 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by PabloImpallari October 2016