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... is the name of the typeface which Francesco Griffo , working for the Aldine Press under Aldus Manutius , cut for Venetian scholar Car...

I live in dread of the Cartamania site going out of existence one day since it has not been updated in over 2 years now. This is one of t...

One problem when writing a post on Steampunk is how to label it correctly: Does one use the label "19th Century" or "21st C...

Published over the course of more than twenty years (1751-1777), the 32 volumes of the Encyclopédie include 21 volumes of text with more ...

The calligraphic art of Hassan Musa from Sudan, re-blogged from Biblio-Odyssey .  

This is a really great online exhibition, put together by Cornell University , which takes you through the history of writing based upon the...

A really good collection of Neville Brody's output put together by Peter Gabor can be found here: http://www.typogabor.com/neville-b...

A selection of images from the blogpost entitled Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Typography published on the BibliOdyssey blog earlier this w...