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• WAVE (Writing as Visual Experience)

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

  457 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Javier Alcaraz aka elcerezo August 2024History of Typography
• Carson Old Face

  412 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Dominic Stanley April 2024Technique and Theory
• Does German Need a New Letter?

  1K views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman April 2024Technique and Theory
• Uppercase and Lowercase style differences – other examples?

  1K 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?

  1.2K views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard October 2023History of Typography
• Words of Type needs support!

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

  1.4K views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig July 2023History of Typography
• Typography Summer School (University of Antwerp)

  1.8K views 14 comments 1 point Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland June 2023Education
• "Scotch Rules"

  1.2K views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson April 2023History of Typography
• Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.

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

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

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

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

  3.8K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard December 2022Technique and Theory
• The future of type

  3.8K views 75 comments 12 points Most recent by Eris Alar August 2022Technique and Theory
• Grotesk / Grotesque

  521 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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  161 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.

  1.3K views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles January 2020History of Typography
• 30th anniversary of TrueType

  481 views 10 comments 8 points Most recent by Nick Shinn September 2019Font Technology
• The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection

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

  231 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian May 2019History of Typography