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History of typography
Links to sites providing information and resources relating to the history of typography, type design and graphic design.
Please note: the sites listed here are not under the control of Microsoft. Please read our disclaimer.
Typographic Studies by Alma
These works, completed over an eight month period (April - October, 1929), showcase the nascent designer's first encounters with the print medium.
The Briar Press
This site is devoted to promoting the art of letterpress, and to preserving some of the familiar and not so familiar graphics and images of letterpresses and the printed image.
e-mail: bpress@aol.com
Cavendish Press
This site contains a gallery of typography-related images and text from through
the ages.
Graphion's online type museum
Includes information about the history and practice of typesetting. The site holds articles on a number of typographic pioneers and also features anecdotes from the age of photo-composition. Maintained by Graphion Typesetting.
e-mail: graphion@graphion.com
History of Printing
A brief history of letterpress printing.
Oak Knoll Books
one of the few large specialists in new and out-of-print reference books and original source material in the field of books about books.
e-mail: oakknoll@oakknoll.com
Melbourne Museum of Printing
Australia's working and teaching museum of type and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specializing in retention of letterpress, both the equipment and the knowledge.
this page was last updated 10 August 1999
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