A unique collection

Incipit has one of the largest libraries of display typefaces, more than 3,500 individual fonts on film. If you are searching for pre-digital faces or want to consult the past for your project, this library and our extensive typeface reference collection are available.

For highlights, download this PDF list of rare photocomposition types.

Exposing the history of type

What was the source for Dom Casual in the 1950s, and the Madison Avenue look of the '60s and '70s? Read "Typefaces as Film Stars" in the November 2005/Design Annual issue of Communication Arts and "Display phototype in New York: folks, firms and fonts" at the St. Bride Library site.

Phototype illustrations, reference sources, and past lectures are online.

On blackletter

Read Peter Bain's 2008 interview in How.

"Blackletter: Type and National Identity," co-edited by Peter Bain and Paul Shaw, is available. This monograph accompanied the landmark Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography exhibition at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.

A separate exhibition catalog appeared as the double issue Printing History 38/39, including over three dozen entries on blackletter and more than 100 letterform illustrations, published by the American Printing History Association.

"Blackletter: Type and National Identity" catalog, Printing History 38/39

The essay "Blacklettering" appeared in Circular 13, the annual publication of the Typographic Circle in London.

More links

"Typocurious, and how to stay that way" describes great sources of typographic inspiration and appeared in Indie Fonts 2, from Rockport Publishers and P22.

More type-related places include the Type Directors Club, the University of Reading's Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, and ATypI.

Souvenir fans should examine this comparison of Ed Benguiat's ITC design with forerunners Schelter Antiqua and Tauchnitz Antiqua.

Good work

A Georgia foundation addressing the needs of women and girls.

Alex Stein in Brooklyn, New York.

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