Typography Weekly #142 is out ☞ https://typography.guru/weekly/arc2/no142/
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The Letter LibraryAnother big one: 500 pages of Linotype Collection Old Face scanned and available for download ☞ https://letterlibrary.org/view/object/linotype-collection-old-face-r1834/
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Typography of Amsterdam in 1500 historical photos ☞ https://www.amsterdamtypography.nl/archive
@nicole The answer is spacing. Put it in a word context and you will find that the white-space gets way too large, potentially even causing confusion about what is a space between words and what is a space between letters. It is NOT just tradition. It’s about readability. But of course it will depend on the specific typeface and its design of the letter f.
From the forums: Name of an old French punctuation mark •—•? ☞ https://typography.guru/forums/topic/140599-name-of-an-old-french-punctuation-mark-••/
Name of an old French punctuation mark •—•?
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: •—• 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...
A Closer Look at Neuland ☞ https://typography.guru/patron-exclusive/a-closer-look-at-neuland-r28/
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Pavillon Presse WeimarPeople 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
