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US Patent: X5,581 - Printing Machine Styled the Typographer

US patent X5,581 Printing Machine Styled the Typographer was issued to William Austin Burt of Detroit, Wayne County, MI. It was granted on 07/23/1829. Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. This is one of the

I Love Typography

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Maurice Meilleur (@[email protected])

1/ I’m beginning to create diagrams for draft chapters of my book on Jurriaan Schrofer’s constructed scripts, a ‘speculative catalog raisonné’ of Schrofer’s designs. I’ve organized it around the idea that there were five design schemata—think of them as centers of design gravity—that Schrofer worked from over the years, tweaking their parameters to yield scripts that share an underlying formal logic but vary—sometimes wildly—in appearance.

Portfolio advice from Type Designers – Pangram Pangram Foundry

Your portfolio is an essential tool for designers from all walks of life, whether you’re a seasoned professional or a fresh-faced student. That’s why this week, we’ve returned to some of the best in the business to ask for their top portfolio advice tips.

Short-fingered vulgarians at the gate (or how I became a typographer, pt. 2): Matthew Butterick