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• Modular scripts project: looking for information about writing instruction

  56 views 0 comments 3 points Started by Maurice Meilleur November 2017 History of Typography
• A new wood type revival with a terrible name.

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

  1.1K views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney August 2017Font Technology
• This Just In: Linotype Master Drawings

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

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

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

  1.1K views 14 comments 1 point Most recent by Fernando Díaz February 2017History of Typography
• Merchant of Alphabets

  1K views 25 comments 8 points Most recent by Doug Wilson February 2017History of Typography
• Monospaced fonts

  270 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?

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

  474 views 7 comments 1 point Most recent by elena Veguillas August 2016History of Typography
• Looking for "A Specimen of Printing Types by Fry, Steele, & Co"

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

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

  184 views 3 comments 8 points Most recent by Nick Shinn June 2016History of Typography
• Edward Johnston's Birthday!

  98 views 0 comments 7 points Started by Fernando Díaz February 2016 History of Typography
• Origins of Corporate typefaces

  831 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by Miles Newlyn February 2016History of Typography
• Dating Lettering on a Stone Carving

  305 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Hugh Wood December 2015History of Typography
• What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?

  1.7K views 44 comments 0 points Most recent by Deleted Account September 2015History of Typography
• Dagger Symbol Design

  2.9K views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos September 2015Technique and Theory
• Is this a 'w' ?

  918 views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Vokits September 2015Technique and Theory
• O with swash below the baseline

  404 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by Deleted Account August 2015Technique and Theory
• Proper way of designing the “@” symbol

  834 views 16 comments 2 points Most recent by Stephen Coles May 2015Technique and Theory
• Two articles about lost and recovered type (in Toronto and London, respectively)

  212 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by joeclark February 2015History of Typography
• revival-paradigms

  231 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by [Deleted User] December 2014Type Design Critiques
• How would you characterize today's typographic trend?

  773 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos May 2014History of Typography
• Best type specimen book ever? 1907 Types of the De Vinne press

  220 views 1 comment 9 points Most recent by Stephen Coles March 2014History of Typography
• American lettering between Atkinson and art deco

  211 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by PabloImpallari March 2014Technique and Theory
• Change in the production process.

  142 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Scott-Martin Kosofsky February 2014Technique and Theory
• What is the earliest instance of a type foundry paying royalties?

  723 views 31 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland November 2013History of Typography
• Miller and Richard information sources.

  115 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by George Thomas February 2013Technique and Theory