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• 1917 Book of Letters: fun examples of Greek Type Design

  167 views 3 comments 3 points Most recent by John Savard July 30History of Typography
• WF Wallenstein, another resurrected Art Nouveau type

  97 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles July 10History of Typography
• Ismar David's typefaces for Photo-Lettering

  191 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by María Ramos July 9History of Typography
• WF Ovid, another Art Nouveau resurrection

  211 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette May 20History of Typography
• Introducing Arpona Typeface

  29 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Felix Braden May 15 Type Releases
• Quotes about typography, not by white guys...

  937 views 15 comments 3 points Most recent by Russell McGorman April 9Education
• The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.

  843 views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles January 3History of Typography
• Typography Summer School (University of Antwerp)

  796 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland October 2019Education
• 30th anniversary of TrueType

  463 views 10 comments 7 points Most recent by Nick Shinn September 2019Font Technology
• The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection

  396 views 6 comments 9 points Most recent by George Thomas June 2019History of Typography
• Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting

  190 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian May 2019History of Typography
• ATF Typesetter Question

  249 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard April 2019Font Technology
• Somebody Agrees with Hrant about Black-Letter

  1.6K views 77 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 2019Technique and Theory
• Phinney’s TheFontDetective.com

  880 views 27 comments 5 points Most recent by Rob Barba March 2019Miscellaneous News
• Penrose Annuals for sale

  371 views 4 comments 2 points Most recent by Nick Shinn November 2018Miscellaneous News
• Type design critique, 1909

  380 views 5 comments 5 points Most recent by Theunis de Jong April 2018History of Typography
• What is a contemporary typeface?

  1K views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Visi April 2018History of Typography
• Sans-serif with spurs on i, n, t, and a

  199 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by David Perry February 2018History of Typography
• Interesting digital type history videos

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

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

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

  1K views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney August 2017Font Technology
• This Just In: Linotype Master Drawings

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

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

  422 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Adam Jagosz March 2017Type Design Critiques
• Type Identification (Historical)

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

  971 views 25 comments 8 points Most recent by Doug Wilson February 2017History of Typography
• Monospaced fonts

  253 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?

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

  372 views 7 comments 1 point Most recent by elena Veguillas August 2016History of Typography