For questions regarding history of design, typography and/or art
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What are some obscure/rare/endangered/extinct typographic symbols?
Just discovered the "asterism" today:
⁂
Super cool. I had never heard of it or seen it before. Wikipedia has more about it.
What other typographic symbols are out there that were never all that ...
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What is the boldest version of the font Neuzeit?
What's the boldest variant of the "Neuzeit?"
Neuzeit Grotesk (or "GroT") is the boldest I've found online, but I just came across a sample in an illustration that was even bolder than that. I need to ...
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CS5: How to make non-linear changes using the history panel?
I made a mistake in the below image by making the left-pointing arrow too high up, such that the black margins do not align.
I wish to go back and change this "combining paths" action, without ...
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What are the historical origins of Helvetica?
This issue of a typeface's heritage is of particular interest when attempting to pair faces. The nuances of related faces tend to harmonize well, whether that relation is grounded in history or the ...
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Blackletter fonts supporting long s and r rotunda?
I'm doing up a document in the style of the earliest printed documents. For this, I need to find a blackletter font that supports long s « ſ » and r rotunda « ꝛ ».
Are there any such fonts out ...
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Can the end of double spacing after periods be dated?
From this Slate article:
Hundreds of years ago some typesetters would end sentences with a double space, others would use a single space, and a few renegades would use three or four spaces. ...
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How to add catchwords using InDesign
Many books before 1800 used a feature called catchwords, repeating the first word of the page at the bottom of the previous page. Wikipedia has a small article on them and there's a good question ...
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What's the term used when the first word of one page is repeated at the end of the previous page?
There's a common feature in old typography where the first word of a page is repeated at the end of the previous page, usually right-aligned on a line by itself. This book from 1759 shows this ...
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What are great examples of the influence that design has?
There is a quote that "bad design never killed anyone," but I know that what we do is less trivial than that.
What designs have you seen cause real change or have a real influence?
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