Letters part 20: The story of inverted stresses and the evolution of an iconic American type.
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 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.