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Discussion List

• When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?

  428 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Jens Kutilek September 29History of Typography
• Where to find old fonts?

  915 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig July 30History of Typography
• Typography Summer School (University of Antwerp)

  1.7K views 14 comments 1 point Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland June 21Education
• "Scotch Rules"

  634 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson April 6History of Typography
• Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.

  464 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson January 15Education
• Typeface timeline

  688 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer January 10Resources
• Dictionary Diacritics

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

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

  1.2K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard December 2022Technique and Theory
• The future of type

  3.7K views 75 comments 12 points Most recent by Eris Alar August 2022Technique and Theory
• Grotesk / Grotesque

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  575 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette May 2020History of Typography
• Introducing Arpona Typeface

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

  1.1K views 15 comments 3 points Most recent by Russell McGorman April 2020Education
• The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.

  1.2K views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles January 2020History of Typography
• 30th anniversary of TrueType

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

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

  203 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian May 2019History of Typography
• ATF Typesetter Question

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

  1.9K views 77 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 2019Technique and Theory
• Phinney’s TheFontDetective.com

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

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

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

  2K views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Visi April 2018History of Typography