Specimens

While Shigetaka Kurita is widely regarded as the inventor of Emoji, thanks to the set he created at NTT DoCoMo in 1999, Matt Sephton found some emojis in Japanese organisers predating them by a lot.

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This is the promotional publication by Team'77, outlining the strategy and realization of Haas Unica. In 1980, Team'77 (consisting of André Gürtler, Erich Gschwind and Christian Mengelt) set out to "correct" common issues found in the grotesk typefaces at the time, including Helvetica. The Haas type foundry, birthplace of Helvetica (originally Neue Grotesk), contracted Gürtler and Team'77 to audit the Helvetica typeface and reissue an improved version. Presently, the Linotype and Scangraphic foundries both claim ownership of the type family. Because of this, Haas Unica is commercially unava...

A visual history from Gutenberg onwards. Welcome to the collection of one of the oldest and more prestigious typographic studios in the world.

A design patent registration made a few weeks before Berthold’s for Akzidenz-Grotesk suggests this typeface was first produced by Bauer & Co., Stuttgart.

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A searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic.

No, the ‘Chyron’ hasn’t been around forever; it just seems that way

A collection of the web’s best typeface specimens. Curated by John D. Jameson.

Flickr photos, groups, and tags related to the "photolettering" Flickr tag.

Focus Unusual umlauts, odd ogoneks, catchy carons and other dodgy diacritics Guidelines All non-standard letter designs and usages are welcome, both good and bad. ‘Non-standard’ can refer to shape, size, position of the diacritical mark, the context, and any other aspect that deviates from the norm. Feel free to comment on the level of quirkiness, especially if you are a native reader: Is it an interesting, beautiful solution, in its context? Or rather something that you would advise against? Please do not post pics that simply show conventional diacritics. Also: not so much looking for plain orthographic/typing errors (like e’ instead of é) – unless they are really curious in some way. Sources Vernacular lettering, signage, typeface specimen, fonts in use, handwriting – whatever. Tags We encourage to tag the photo with the Unicode of the character(s), e.g. Ö = U+00D6, ö = U+00F6 etc. Formal Some context is okay, no need for cropping. Resources The Diacritics Project: diacritics.typo.cz Ondrej Jób: Context of Diacritics David Březina: On diacritics Adam Twardoch: Polish Diacritics: how to? Victor Gaultney: Problems of diacritic design for Latin script text faces Agnieszka Małecka & Zofia Oslislo (ed.): The Insects Project. Problems of Diacritic Design for Central European Languages Ondrej Jób: Context of Diacritics Radek Sidun: Diacritics of world’s languages Aleksandra Samuļenkova: Diacritics as a Means of Self-Identification, ATypI 2016 (video, about Latvian diacritics) David Jonathan Ross: How *not* to draw accents, ATypI 2017 (video) See Aleksandra’s Twitter thread (+ replies) for more resources. Thanks!

Clément Le Tulle-Neyret | Graphic and typographic practice

Typography photos from the category house numbers.

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Flickr photos, groups, and tags related to the "compactumlaut" Flickr tag.

This specimen was produced at a point of great change in the American typefounding industry. The owners of the Central Type Foundry (Schraubstadter and St....

This treasure chest of 600+ specimen cards holds a complete snapshot of the last metal type foundries in Germany. Produced between 1958 and 1971, the Schriftenkartei (Typeface Index) represents a West German agency’s effort to catalog all the country’s typefaces in production at the time. The cards are useful for type researchers and designers as they share a common format and show complete character sets — a resource not often included in foundry specimens. Thanks to a generous donation from Michael Wörgotter, a set of these cards is now in Letterform Archive’s collection, and his high-res scans are available in this Flickr album. Learn more →

The Canadian Typography Archives is dedicated to documenting and preserving typographic history - from every corner and community across Canada. It is a digital archive including finished artifacts (projects), articles, correspondence, processes, oral histories and other materials in the form of ima

A project about type specimens: what they are; how they are used; and who makes them.

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Here in Klingspor Type Archive, the stock of historical material from the former type foundry Gebr. Klingspor in Offenbach, which is still stored in Klingspor Museum, is accessible online. Furthermore, contemporary projects based on the archive material can also be found here.

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