Letters part 2: How ancient Romans turned bad handwriting into a monumental type and forever changed the way we would use our alphabet; from serifs, to capitals, to the third most popular font of all time.
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 1: An introduction to the backwards anachronisms that make BLKBK great typographers of the Latin alphabet, reimagining ancient form, drawing on legacies and traditions older than papyrus, fusing the methods of ancient script-writing with contemporary technology.
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