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• Does Surrealism have a Typographic Language?

  493 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn July 10Type Design Technique & Theory
• The Script Style of House Numbers

  823 views 12 comments 2 points Most recent by Erik May 20Type History
• WAVE (Writing as Visual Experience)

  252 views 2 comments 6 points Most recent by Adam Twardoch September 2024Events
• Hermes Baby typewriter script font

  773 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Javier Alcaraz aka elcerezo August 2024Type History
• Carson Old Face

  476 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Dominic Stanley April 2024Type Design Technique & Theory
• Does German Need a New Letter?

  1.4K views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman April 2024Type Design Technique & Theory
• Uppercase and Lowercase style differences – other examples?

  1.5K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Jamie Clarke February 2024Type Design Critiques
• When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?

  1.6K views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard October 2023Type History
• Words of Type needs support!

  381 views 1 comment 10 points Most recent by María Ramos October 2023Type Resources
• Where to find old fonts?

  1.7K views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig July 2023Type History
• Typography Summer School (University of Antwerp)

  2K views 14 comments 1 point Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland June 2023Type Education
• "Scotch Rules"

  1.5K views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson April 2023Type History
• Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.

  989 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson January 2023Type Education
• Typeface timeline

  1.1K views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer January 2023Type Resources
• Dictionary Diacritics

  622 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer December 2022Type History
• Computer Keyboard Based on a Type Case

  186 views 1 comment 2 points Most recent by Mark Simonson December 2022Miscellaneous News
• The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli

  5K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard December 2022Lettering Technique & Theory
• The future of type

  4.9K views 75 comments 12 points Most recent by Eris Alar August 2022Type Design Technique & Theory
• Grotesk / Grotesque

  593 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Daniel Riley June 2022Type History
• Year-long lecture series on “The Age of the Writing Master and the Origins of English Roundhand”

  376 views 3 comments 3 points Most recent by Phan January 2022Events
• WF Schelter Antiqua, another resurrected Art Nouveau type

  949 views 12 comments 1 point Most recent by Claudio Piccinini December 2020Type History
• 1917 Book of Letters: fun examples of Greek Type Design

  507 views 4 comments 5 points Most recent by Jacob Casal August 2020Type History
• WF Habsburg, another Art Nouveau Revival, fresh from the oven!

  236 views 4 comments 2 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) August 2020Type History
• WF Wallenstein, another resurrected Art Nouveau type

  416 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles July 2020Type History
• Ismar David's typefaces for Photo-Lettering

  410 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by María Ramos July 2020Type History
• WF Ovid, another Art Nouveau resurrection

  789 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette May 2020Type History
• Introducing Arpona Typeface

  168 views 0 comments 0 points Most recent by Felix Braden May 2020Type Releases
• Quotes about typography, not by white guys...

  1.3K views 15 comments 3 points Most recent by Russell McGorman April 2020Type Education
• The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.

  1.8K views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles January 2020Type History
• 30th anniversary of TrueType

  596 views 10 comments 8 points Most recent by Nick Shinn September 2019Font Technology