An account on Medium of designing the letter Æ. Header Image By Szomjasrágó at Hungarian Wikipedia (Transferred from hu.wikipedia to Commons.) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Fell Types
Igino Marini’s website about the Fell Types, including downloadable versions of the types, via. Ian Knight.
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Metal Type: Monotype Recorders
An amazing project by Dave Hughes and John Cornelisse to scan the back copies of the Monotype Recorder. The Monotype Recorder both set the standard and documented the advance of typography at the hands of this firm and these PDFs will make fascinating reading. Thanks, both!
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James Mosley: 'Commercial at' or @
Greatly informative article on the history of the ‘commercial at’ or @ symbol by James Mosley.
A starting point for the age-old problem of choosing a house face
Just as competitors wanted to improve typography generally, Ludlow also took on the challenge
The famous Sheffield-based type founder
The building blocks of the printed word and today’s graphic design