Ancestors

Written by Typographica on 2025-01-25 at 06:11

The poor workers at Franklin Type Foundry must’ve been living a hard life when they picked the specimen phrases for their 1889 catalog. (https://archive.org/details/convenientbookof00allirich)

[#]TypeSpecimens #Typefaces #Fonts #Poetry

[First posted on Twitter, May 6, 2018]

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Written by Typographica on 2025-01-25 at 06:15

… This is rough.

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Toot

Written by Typographica on 2025-01-25 at 06:18

… Still, there’s light at the end of the tunnel, and a bit of optimistic wisdom amidst the doom.

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Descendants

Written by Typographica on 2025-01-25 at 06:19

… And name ideas for 21st-century startups. Listen for this maker of artisan tableware on your next podcast sponsor break.

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Written by Typographica on 2025-01-25 at 16:41

A reminder that https://library.typographica.org/specimen-books-of-metal-wood-type lists over 300 metal and wood type specimens hosted online.

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(A long overdue newsletter is going out to patrons this weekend.)

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Written by Rouge on 2025-01-25 at 07:07

@typographica This is now my favorite book. I’ve been taking captures of my favorite samples for like 15 minutes :shibahearteyes:

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Written by Marta Bernstein on 2025-01-25 at 18:54

@typographica this reminded me of the Italian specimen that was all set in Italian while the city (Trieste) was under the Austrian empire. I should write about it

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