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• On behalf of a historian: typefaces related to Lincoln assassination

  553 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn January 5Type History
• Hello everyone!

  331 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by mitradranirban December 2024Type Releases
• New (to me) Resources for Doves Type

  322 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard May 2024Type History
• Hi everyone!

  712 views 13 comments 3 points Most recent by Tarumian May 2024Introductions
• Carson Old Face

  412 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Dominic Stanley April 2024Type Design Technique & Theory
• Uppercase and Lowercase style differences – other examples?

  1K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Jamie Clarke February 2024Type Design Critiques
• History of type communities, and its future?

  521 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by John Hudson December 2023Type History
• When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?

  1.2K views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard October 2023Type History
• What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?

  1.6K views 21 comments 0 points Most recent by Niteesh Yadav May 2023Lettering Technique & Theory
• A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)

  2.3K views 33 comments 1 point Most recent by glennflei February 2023Type History
• Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.

  692 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson January 2023Type Education
• Does anyone know who invented ink traps, or what year they were first used

  1K views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn August 2022Type History
• Photo Typeface?

  1.5K views 40 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson February 2022Type History
• Retro style 70s font...opinions please

  453 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Fontfruits November 2021Type History
• favourite sources for metal type research

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  412 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian July 2019Type Education
• The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection

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

  232 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian May 2019Type History
• Grazhdanskiy Shrift

  2.8K 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.

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

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

  1.3K views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian January 2018Type History
• German typeface designer Helmut Matheis turns 100

  342 views 4 comments 16 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev November 2017Miscellaneous News