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Design studio focused on book design, illustration, and environment design


1780s

I use this space to gather notes and samples of typefaces. My purpose here is not to be exhaustive, but to learn and be useful in the process.


Serif   Sans-serif   Italic   Script

Based on a number of typefaces created between 1784–1811 that had similar characteristics–hairline strokes, high contrast.

Notes and sources:

Alexander Lawson, Anatomy of a Typeface
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
Ellen Lupton, Thinking With Type
Phillip B. Meggs, A History of Graphic Design
Alan Bartram, Five Hundred Years of Book Design
Wikipedia, among others. Some images from Wikipedia are used under the Creative Commons license, and have been resized.