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• Phinney’s TheFontDetective.com

  697 views 23 comments 5 points Most recent by James Montalbano May 2Miscellaneous News
• Type design critique, 1909

  348 views 5 comments 5 points Most recent by Theunis de Jong April 7History of Typography
• What is a contemporary typeface?

  505 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Visi April 4History of Typography
• Sans-serif with spurs on i, n, t, and a

  146 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by David Perry February 25History of Typography
• Interesting digital type history videos

  79 views 0 comments 9 points Started by Beau Williamson November 2017 History of Typography
• Modular scripts project: looking for information about writing instruction

  53 views 0 comments 3 points Started by Maurice Meilleur November 2017 History of Typography
• A new wood type revival with a terrible name.

  6 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) October 2017 Type Releases
• Origins of Python in Type Design

  839 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney August 2017Font Technology
• This Just In: Linotype Master Drawings

  307 views 3 comments 9 points Most recent by Kent Lew August 2017History of Typography
• ‹y› with a clear baseline

  263 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn June 2017History of Typography
• Pertho - rune-inspired slab serif

  372 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Adam Jagosz March 2017Type Design Critiques
• Type Identification (Historical)

  597 views 14 comments 1 point Most recent by Fernando Díaz February 2017History of Typography
• Merchant of Alphabets

  902 views 25 comments 7 points Most recent by Doug Wilson February 2017History of Typography
• Monospaced fonts

  215 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn December 2016History of Typography
• Which historical designs are known as some of the best italics ever drawn?

  226 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by PabloImpallari October 2016History of Typography
• Habsburg Spain type design?

  328 views 7 comments 1 point Most recent by elena Veguillas August 2016History of Typography
• The future of type

  1.7K views 51 comments 10 points Most recent by Ofir Shavit August 2016Technique and Theory
• Looking for "A Specimen of Printing Types by Fry, Steele, & Co"

  225 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Thierry Blancpain July 2016History of Typography
• Fraction Slash

  406 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos July 2016Technique and Theory
• The legend of Eisenhower’s Skinny 'S'

  177 views 3 comments 8 points Most recent by Nick Shinn June 2016History of Typography
• Edward Johnston's Birthday!

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

  571 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by Miles Newlyn February 2016History of Typography
• Dating Lettering on a Stone Carving

  227 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Hugh Wood December 2015History of Typography
• Origin of mechanical slant

  275 views 13 comments 2 points Most recent by Frode Bo Helland (inactive) December 2015Technique and Theory
• What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?

  1.3K views 44 comments 0 points Most recent by Deleted Account September 2015History of Typography
• Dagger Symbol Design

  1.2K views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos September 2015Technique and Theory
• Is this a 'w' ?

  693 views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Vokits September 2015Technique and Theory
• O with swash below the baseline

  312 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by Deleted Account August 2015Technique and Theory
• Proper way of designing the “@” symbol

  629 views 16 comments 2 points Most recent by Stephen Coles May 2015Technique and Theory
• Two articles about lost and recovered type (in Toronto and London, respectively)

  215 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by joeclark February 2015History of Typography