Letters part 14: How printing made it to America via Britain, and the role that documents would play in the emergent settler society.
Letters
Letters is the story of type. Our fonts are cutting-edge digital, hand-crafted analogue—their heritage is written in the intertwining histories of design, technology, literacy, and everything else. This is where we pay our respects. To read the series from the beginning, click here. Find our latest issues below.
Letters part 13: How printing made it to America via Spain and in the process preserved banned ideas and an indigenous language.
Letters part 12: How Enlightenment-era virtues changed typography, from the introduction of the point system to the professionalization of font designers.
Letters part 11: The typographical contributions of the Aldine Press, made through the work of two all-time-great type founders, Francesco Griffo and Claude Garamond.
Letters part 10: The rediscovery of Carolingian Minuscule in the Italian Renaissance and the development of the first modern Roman font.
Letters part 9: How the first printer in England chose English, and chose the future of the English Language.