Portal:Typography

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Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed.

This portal also covers type design and manufacture.

Type design and typefaces[edit]

Specimen catalogs[edit]

Alexander Wilson & Son[edit]

American Type Founders[edit]

Anthony Bessemer[edit]

Austin's Imperial Letter Foundry[edit]

Baltimore Type Company[edit]

  • One Line Specimens and Revised Price List No. 8-A (1938) IA

Blake, Garnett and Co.[edit]

Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry[edit]

Bruce Type Foundry[edit]

Caslon and Catherwood[edit]

Cincinnati Type Foundry[edit]

Fann Street Foundry[edit]

Government Printing Office[edit]

Hamilton Manufacturing Co.[edit]

Henry Caslon[edit]

H. G. Bishop[edit]

Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan[edit]

Montreal Type Foundry[edit]

Palmer & Rey[edit]

Rand & Avery[edit]

S. W. Green's Son[edit]

William Caslon[edit]

William H. Page & Co.[edit]

V. & J. Figgins[edit]

Type foundries[edit]

Companies that manufacture physical type for use in printing presses.

Periodicals[edit]

Type manufacture and printing was a large industry. Many periodicals wwere dedicated to the subject, and many more general printing, publishing and book-making periodicals also covered typographical topics.

Works about typography[edit]

Encyclopaedic articles[edit]

See also[edit]