Letters part 20: The story of inverted stresses and the evolution of an iconic American type.
Letters
Letters part 19: the antique origins of a clean break from one of typography's long-standing traditions.
Letters part 18: How the Industrial Revolution created a new market for marketing—and fonts.
Letters part 17: The changes wrought in literacy by the advent of mass printing and paper-making machines at the start of the Industrial Revolution.
Letters part 16: How the early 19th century's finest type failed as text and succeeded as the a breakout display font.
Letters part 15: The survival of handwriting and how calligraphy flourished in the printing era.