Two articles about lost and recovered type (in Toronto and London, respectively)

joeclark

Toronto Star: “That time an impressive collection of 20th-century typography was thrown in the trash”

BBC video: “Lost typeface printing blocks [that would be the Doves Types] found in River Thames”

Marc Oxborrow

Links aren't working.

Stephen Coles

Fixed. Something about the list item HTML was breaking the links. I’ll ask the forum service what’s up.

Marc Oxborrow

Thanks, Stephen (and Joe).

joeclark

Valid HTML, and I previewed it twice. But it is not atypical for forum software not to know what valid HTML is.

joeclark

Oddly, “Doves Type” came to be used so often so fast that one of the lexicography blogs-cum-sites, Wordnik, cited it on its Word Buzz Wednesday (sic) feature.