type history

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• The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.

  700 views 28 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig November 16History of Typography
• white space compensation or other reasons in N, M, W etc.

  222 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Lukas Horn September 5Technique and Theory
• favourite sources for metal type research

  265 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini August 8History of Typography
• Going to Italy, looking for Jenson's Adress (and other cool stuff)

  365 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian July 10Education
• The Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection

  357 views 6 comments 9 points Most recent by George Thomas June 3History of Typography
• Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting

  181 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian May 23History of Typography
• A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)

  674 views 31 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard May 21History of Typography
• Grazhdanskiy Shrift

  1.1K views 22 comments 1 point Most recent by Igor Freiberger January 16Type Design Critiques
• Looking for early examples of type designed for materials other than paper.

  483 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

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

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

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

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

  233 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