type history

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• white space compensation or other reasons in N, M, W etc.

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

  180 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.

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

  289 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)

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

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

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

  797 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

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

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

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

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

  257 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