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

joeclark Posts: 122

February 2015 edited February 2015 in History of Typography

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”

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• history
• toronto
• doves types
• cooper & beatty

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  Marc Oxborrow Posts: 220

  February 2015

  Links aren't working.

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  Stephen Coles Posts: 1,016

  February 2015

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

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  Marc Oxborrow Posts: 220

  February 2015

  Thanks, Stephen (and Joe).

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  joeclark Posts: 122

  February 2015

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

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  joeclark Posts: 122

  February 2015

  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.

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