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 Where does our alphabet come from? The Origins of abc
We see it every day on signs, billboards, packaging, in books and magazines; in fact, you are looking at it now - the Latin or Roman alphabet, the world's most prolific, most widespread abc. Typography is a relatively recent invention, but to unearth the origins of alphabets, we will need to travel much farther back in time, to an era contemporaneous with the emergence of (agricultural) civilisation itself. Read on...
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Can't resist the urge to download free fonts? Then proceed with caution. Here's a list of things you definitely need to check when picking a free font for a design, according to typography expert Yves Peters. Read on...
My thoughts on the subject (scroll to bottom): Free fonts - boon or bust?.
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Typesetting Mysteries, Part Two
