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• The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.

  643 views 27 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig October 21History of Typography
• Typography Summer School (University of Antwerp)

  747 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland October 19Education
• 30th anniversary of TrueType

  442 views 10 comments 7 points Most recent by Nick Shinn September 23Font Technology
• The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection

  355 views 6 comments 9 points Most recent by George Thomas June 3History of Typography
• Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting

  184 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian May 23History of Typography
• ATF Typesetter Question

  222 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard April 18Font Technology
• Somebody Agrees with Hrant about Black-Letter

  1.6K views 77 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 21Technique and Theory
• Phinney’s TheFontDetective.com

  872 views 27 comments 5 points Most recent by Rob Barba March 9Miscellaneous News
• Penrose Annuals for sale

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

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

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

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

  83 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  243 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?

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

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

  1.8K 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"

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

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

  173 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

  702 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by Miles Newlyn February 2016History of Typography