And just a few weeks ago, I published about the biggest article I’ve ever written about typography on the biggest typeface release of the past 25 years: GOTHAM.

The Gotham article (on @frerejonestype’s site) was three years in the making and is the definitive story on how Gotham was created and why it is the way it is; based on the designer behind the typeface.

I added to my blog a bit of info and a timeline that didn’t make it into the final post, because I thought it was important for future researchers: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/writing-about-gotham

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The beauty of having your own blog is you can write as much or as little as you want and you don’t have to care about clicks.

In November, I updated a post about a mysterious printing code that was officially confirmed during research for my Linotype book: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/cracking-the-linotype-printing-code

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My next post was not until October; but was a culmination of six months of work digitizing, preserving, and uploading vintage printing and typography films.

One of the things I am most proud of this year is adding to a side-project which has been running for over a decade: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/new-additions-to-printing-films-archive

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Published in April, I wrote about finding Ottmar Mergenthaler’s death certificate so I could clarify his cause of death, at the young age of 46 years old.

Mergenthaler fits in the pantheon of late-19th-century inventors such as the exceptionally-racist Henry Ford, Henry Firestone, Levi Strauss, Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, and the exceptionally-petty Thomas Edison, but yet I bet you’ve never heard of him: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/in-search-of-a-death-certificate

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