State Department to switch from "woke" default Microsoft font to old British newspaper typeface For an administration that gets upset when people compare it to fascist-era Germany, getting wound up by "woke" fonts won't help.

You know how sometimes you read a headline and think, this can't possibly be real. And then you realize oh yeah, this is today.

#PeopleWhoDontGetFonts #TypographyHistory

Helvetica is more than just a font — it’s a piece of design history. A classic typeface that shaped modern branding and still inspires today.
#repost #ctto @sweetorangepeeel #helvetica #typographyhistory #graphicdesign

Animated gif. Specimens of: Caslon’s ‘Two Lines English Egyptian’ shown in his Specimen of Printing Types (London, 1816) © Type Archive Vincent Figgins’s ‘Five Lines Pica Antique’ shown in his 1815 specimen (facsimile). The leaves on which these types are printed are actually dated 1817 © St Bride Foundation (library accession number 38184/32305) Vincent Figgins’s ‘Two-Line Great Primer Sans-serif’ (1830), shown in his 1832 specimen © St Bride Foundation (library accession number 22224)

⚫️🟤 The first sanserif type
James Mosley at Abyme
@fonderieabyme ig: fonderieabyme
#SansSerif #typography #JamesMosley #Abyme #TypographyHistory #Foundry

www.abyme.net/revue/thefir...

Cooper Black is everywhere. And for good reason:



#typography #displaytype #printing #typographyhistory

youtu.be/Zu91meda2I8