Typography

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Type design, setting, fonts, etc.

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ARETE — Visual History of the Latin Alphabet (uclab.fh-potsdam.de)
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The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen (drhagen.com)
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Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437? (blog.glyphdrawing.club)
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The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (haacked.com)
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The Legend of Prince's Special Custom-Font Symbol Floppy Disks (nymag.com)
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Docomo Emoji Set To Be Officially Discontinued (blog.emojipedia.org)
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The Am Dash (www.theamdash.com)
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Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests (www.theguardian.com)
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My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (part I) (www.lfe.pt)
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Font activations (robhorning.substack.com)
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Similarities between popular video game and TV game show typefaces (lemmy.ml)
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Was watching an episode of The Price Is Right from the Bob Barker era and noticed the similarity between its logo and the GTA logo.

Found this post on Reddit after searching about it. There is more info on the typefaces in the comments on that post.

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Malaya's timeless design (www.linyangchen.com)
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Designers Do a Double Take at the Lettering on Pope Francis’ Tombstone (www.nytimes.com)
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"Pretty" is in the eye of the beholder | CSS-Tricks (css-tricks.com)
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Font used in famous anti-piracy campaign was pirated (boingboing.net)
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Are Em Dashes Really a Sign of AI Writing? (www.rollingstone.com)
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Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids - Microsoft Design (microsoft.design)
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Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437? (blog.glyphdrawing.club)
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More than 1,500 new fonts – including all-time favorites – come to Adobe Fonts | Adobe Blog (blog.adobe.com)
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More than 1,500 new fonts – including all-time favorites – come to Adobe Fonts | Adobe Blog (blog.adobe.com)
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Better typography with text-wrap pretty (webkit.org)
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Exeter's unassuming Co-op worker leads astonishing 'double life' (www.devonlive.com)
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Nebula Sans (nebulasans.com)
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The Least Common, Least Loved Names in America (getpocket.com)
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German Bold Italic: Kylie Minogue sang a song about being a typeface (boingboing.net)
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