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• WAVE (Writing as Visual Experience)

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

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

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

  1.2K views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman April 2024Type Design Technique & Theory
• Uppercase and Lowercase style differences – other examples?

  1.1K 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?

  1.3K views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard October 2023Type History
• Words of Type needs support!

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

  1.5K views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig July 2023Type History
• Typography Summer School (University of Antwerp)

  1.9K views 14 comments 1 point Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland June 2023Type Education
• "Scotch Rules"

  1.3K 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.

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

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

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

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

  4.2K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard December 2022Lettering Technique & Theory
• The future of type

  3.9K views 75 comments 12 points Most recent by Eris Alar August 2022Type Design Technique & Theory
• Grotesk / Grotesque

  545 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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  1.2K 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.

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

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

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

  243 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian May 2019Type History