New scans: Tages-Antiqua brochure ☞ https://letterlibrary.org/view/object/tages-antiqua-r1858/
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The type specimens of the world. A platform from the typography network of Schriftkontor Ralf Herrmann
“Descenders, turned into arrows, being shot in someone’s butt”. The Model Book of Calligraphy ☞ https://letterlibrary.org/core/letteringcalligraphy-alphabets/mira-calligraphiae-monumenta-llc2631-r2631/
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Another big one: 500 pages of Linotype Collection Old Face scanned and available for download ☞ https://letterlibrary.org/view/object/linotype-collection-old-face-r1834/
New List: Letterpress Typefaces with a Shadow ☞ https://letterlibrary.org/view/list/letterpress-typefaces-with-a-shadow-r15/
Meridian, Imre Reiner, 1930, Klingspor foundry. With an ß designed as ſz.
New hi-res scans: Johannes Wagner Fraktur-Schriften ☞ https://letterlibrary.org/view/object/fraktur-schriften-r1787/
Guided Tour through the online archive: The Modernisation of German Blackletter Typefaces During the 1920s and 1930s ☞ https://letterlibrary.org/view/tour/modernisation-blackletter-in-germany/introduction-r75/
Introduction
In the 1920s, designers sought to modernize typefaces and typography as a whole, leading to the creation of geometric sans-serif typefaces—a category that remains widely popular to this day. While the modernization movement primarily focused on sans-serif designs, attempts to apply these principl...
German blackletter fonts came with lowercase ligatures for ch, ck and tz, which were considered obligatory for blackletter typesetting. German non-blackletter fonts at the beginning of the 20th century would often include them as well. Orient-Antiqua went further and added uppercase versions. https://letterlibrary.org/view/stack/orient-antiqua-r19/
When you are out of sorts. 🔨 https://letterlibrary.org/view/stack/bombe-r18/
