History of Typography

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• A new landmark in typographic history

  261 views 3 comments 2 points Most recent by Dan C. Rinnert June 2016
• Fifth Century Athenian letter forms

  263 views 7 comments 1 point Most recent by Russell McGorman May 2016
• Call for papers: Visible Language, 50th Anniversary Edition

  642 views 13 comments 3 points Most recent by Kevin Larson May 2016
• Dfr in blackletter fonts

  112 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig May 2016
• Choosing a book on the quality of it's typography, online,

  112 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by James Puckett May 2016
• An HTML Hyperlink Typesetting Question

  311 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Richard Fink May 2016
• first use of arrows to indicate directions...

  1.2K views 26 comments 3 points Most recent by Luciano Perondi April 2016
• Early superior letters

  492 views 17 comments 1 point Most recent by Miles Newlyn April 2016
• Antiqua/blackletter mix

  930 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Yªssin Bªggªr April 2016
• Johnston Sans and Gill

  332 views 5 comments 2 points Most recent by Deleted Account April 2016
• Imperial vs Gazette

  1.1K views 12 comments 1 point Most recent by Kent Lew March 2016
• Interesting piece of letterform history

  131 views 5 comments 3 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner March 2016
• Different width of ellipse?

  265 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn February 2016
• The Monotype Recorder (Digitalized)

  226 views 2 comments 3 points Most recent by Fernando Díaz February 2016
• Edward Johnston's Birthday!

  102 views 0 comments 7 points Started by Fernando Díaz February 2016
• Origins of Corporate typefaces

  951 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by Miles Newlyn February 2016
• What is “Unger” as an adjective?

  667 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by erik spiekermann February 2016
• Short Monotype Descenders

  859 views 28 comments 1 point Most recent by Max Phillips February 2016
• A Database of American Typeface Design Patents (1842-1899)

  213 views 5 comments 4 points Most recent by Scott-Martin Kosofsky February 2016
• Blackletter font on a 1932 diploma

  174 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Christian Thalmann January 2016
• typophile.com, helvetica & fascism

  611 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Maurice Meilleur January 2016
• Dating Lettering on a Stone Carving

  332 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Hugh Wood December 2015
• Clarkson Book Support alternatives

  152 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by PabloImpallari December 2015
• Digital Times (New) Roman

  1.2K views 2 comments 7 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney November 2015
• You start blogging about fonts and this is what happens

  511 views 16 comments 3 points Most recent by Chris Lozos November 2015
• First typeface with a name?

  624 views 10 comments 4 points Most recent by Nick Shinn October 2015
• What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?

  2K views 44 comments 0 points Most recent by Deleted Account September 2015
• Gong—how did they do this?

  946 views 22 comments 0 points Most recent by kupfers August 2015
• Organizing, storing (or even bothering to keep) late 20th Century typefoundry ephemera

  181 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles June 2015
• On the microagression of U+1F4A9

  322 views 6 comments 1 point Most recent by David Sudweeks March 2015