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Typography Weekly #142 is out ☞ https://typography.guru/weekly/arc2/no142/
Ads of the 1980s. πŸ™ˆ #linotype
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/
Typography of Amsterdam in 1500 historical photos ☞ https://www.amsterdamtypography.nl/archive
From the forums: Name of an old French punctuation mark β€’β€”β€’? ☞ https://typography.guru/forums/topic/140599-name-of-an-old-french-punctuation-mark-β€’β€’/
Name of an old French punctuation mark β€’β€”β€’?

Hello,I once read about a historic punctuation mark used in France that consisted of a long bar with two balls or other shapes on either end. Something like this: β€’β€”β€’ Can anyone help me remember its name or where I might have encountered this?(I have a vague memory that this appeared in an old bo...

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Typography Weekly #141 is out ☞ https://typography.guru/weekly/arc2/no141/
When you are covering your bases for German compound words.
People keep asking about the CRTronic/Linotronic catalogs in our collection. So, here they are. (800 DPI scans in the ZIP files) ☞ https://archive.org/details/@opentype/lists/3/linotype-phototypesetting-machines
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 typefacesβ€”a category that remains widely popular to this day. While the modernization movement primarily focused on sans-serif designs, attempts to apply these principl...