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• Typography Summer School (University of Antwerp)

  1.5K views 13 comments 1 point Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland April 30Education
• "Scotch Rules"

  528 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  3.6K views 75 comments 12 points Most recent by Eris Alar August 2022Technique and Theory
• Grotesk / Grotesque

  455 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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  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.

  1.1K views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles January 2020History of Typography
• 30th anniversary of TrueType

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

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

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

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

  1.8K views 77 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 2019Technique and Theory
• Phinney’s TheFontDetective.com

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

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

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

  1.9K views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Visi April 2018History of Typography
• Sans-serif with spurs on i, n, t, and a

  298 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