type history

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• Typography Summer School Antwerp, EcTd, and Covid-19

  248 views 1 comment 2 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland September 6Education
• white space compensation or other reasons in N, M, W etc.

  588 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos May 4Technique and Theory
• Interesting Omega and Phi Inscription

  186 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Vassilis Georgiou March 4History of Typography
• The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.

  844 views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Coles January 3History of Typography
• favourite sources for metal type research

  294 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini August 2019History of Typography
• Going to Italy, looking for Jenson's Adress (and other cool stuff)

  373 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian July 2019Education
• The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection

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

  195 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian May 2019History of Typography
• A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)

  835 views 31 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard May 2019History of Typography
• Grazhdanskiy Shrift

  1.1K 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.

  503 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

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

  496 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian January 2018History of Typography
• German typeface designer Helmut Matheis turns 100

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

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

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

  1K views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard September 2017History of Typography