type history

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• What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?

  866 views 21 comments 0 points Most recent by Niteesh Yadav May 26Technique and Theory
• A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)

  1.8K views 33 comments 1 point Most recent by glennflei February 17History 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
• Does anyone know who invented ink traps, or what year they were first used

  461 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn August 2022History of Typography
• Photo Typeface?

  1K views 40 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson February 2022History of Typography
• Retro style 70s font...opinions please

  360 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Fontfruits November 2021History of Typography
• favourite sources for metal type research

  572 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles October 2021History of Typography
• Typography Instructor

  267 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman February 2021Job Postings
• WF Schelter Antiqua, another resurrected Art Nouveau type

  605 views 12 comments 1 point Most recent by Claudio Piccinini December 2020History of Typography
• Book and Regular – who started?

  184 views 4 comments -1 point Most recent by Matthijs Sluiter December 2020History of Typography
• Typography Summer School Antwerp, EcTd, and Covid-19

  502 views 1 comment 2 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland September 2020Education
• white space compensation or other reasons in N, M, W etc.

  631 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos May 2020Technique and Theory
• Interesting Omega and Phi Inscription

  344 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Vassilis Georgiou March 2020History of Typography
• 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
• Going to Italy, looking for Jenson's Adress (and other cool stuff)

  392 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian July 2019Education
• 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
• Grazhdanskiy Shrift

  1.7K views 22 comments 1 point Most recent by Igor Freiberger January 2019Type Design Critiques
• Looking for early examples of type designed for materials other than paper.

  556 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Jacques Le Bailly May 2018History of Typography
• [OTVar] Variable font resources: 1991–2018 published on Axis-Praxis

  96 views 0 comments 3 points Started by Laurence Penney March 2018 Font Technology
• Eth and Thorn - historical forms

  925 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian January 2018History of Typography
• German typeface designer Helmut Matheis turns 100

  317 views 4 comments 16 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev November 2017Miscellaneous News
• Interesting article about history of Futura

  162 views 0 comments 0 points Started by AbrahamLee November 2017 Miscellaneous News
• Information on Bronislav Malý 's Cantoria Typeface

  332 views 2 comments 3 points Most recent by Adam Twardoch September 2017History of Typography
• Does that “y” exist?

  1.1K views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard September 2017History of Typography