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Typoart Liberta folder scanned at 800 dpi ☞ https://letterlibrary.org/view/object/liberta-folder-r1874/

My favorite use of PLINC’s Caruso Roxy: the covers for a series of creative activity books by Grace Mintonye and James E. Seidelman, published by Crowell-Collier Press from 1967 on.

See all of seven on @FontsInUse: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/42135/creating-book-series-by-james-e-seidelman-and

#BookCovers #crafts #MidCentury #1960s #fonts #FontsInUse

Florian Hardwig 1d ago

Anna Vasina 1d ago

From The Old Bucharest
George D. Florescu
1935

Book: https://archive.org/details/florescu-george-d.-din-vechiul-bucuresti.-biserici-curti-boieresti-si-hanuri_202510

#typefindings

Florian Hardwig 2d ago

Dan Reynolds 3d ago

I don’t know if this is gonna float anyone else’s boat, but it made my afternoon! The @stabi_berlin just uploaded its digitization of a specimen for Ramses, a serif typeface designed by Hermann Delitsch for Julius Klinkhardt around 1912. The specimen’s title page features a stylized ornament that depicts Pharaoh Ramesses II. I instantly recognized it! H. Berthold AG acquired Klinkhardt after WWI, and Joseph Tscherkassy – a Ukrainian-Jewish former typefounder who fled to Berlin during WWI – reused it on a page from his 1924 specimen of H. Berthold AG’s Hebrew and Yiddish typefaces. I instantly recognized it from that catalog. In some quarters, it is considered the most beautiful metal type specimen ever printed.

https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1963801857&PHYSID=PHYS_0001&view=overview-toc&DMDID=

https://berlin.museum-digital.de/singleimage?imagenr=102887#map=1.38/1621.28/1361.67/0

Florian Hardwig 3d ago

Shoko Mugikura 3d ago

Preparing for my talk next week at the Fontstand Conference in Berlin!

Yes, the topic is admittedly a bit niche: “Rounded sans in Japan.” I’ll be looking at why rounded sans is so widely used in Japan, and why it carries quite different connotations there – tracing its roots in calligraphy, sign painting, and multiscript typography.

It will be a visually rich presentation, and I hope it offers fresh insights — not only for CJK design enthusiasts, but also for anyone curious about how design and culture intersect.

Here are a few teaser Images!

Florian Hardwig 3d ago

Micah Blachman 3d ago

Fascinating post by @mwichary about the Macintosh system font naming: https://unsung.aresluna.org/world-class-female-singers/

World-class female singers – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

Florian Hardwig 6d ago

Mark your calendars: the anniversary edition of Mastering Type will be shown on 25 and 26 April at Kulturforum Berlin.

The event provides insights into contemporary type design education; with an exhibition of 350+ graduation projects made in the past decade at @TypeMedia, Écal, @ANRT, @esadtype, University of Buenos Aires, University of Reading, and @typeparis; as well as lectures and workshops. Organized by Luc(as) de Groot @LucasFonts and the @typostammtisch team.

https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/kunstbibliothek/exhibitions/detail/mastering-type/