Ten quality curated must-have font families for 2025.
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ILT’s Favorite Fonts of 2023
It’s that time of year again. Join us as we look back at some of our favorite new fonts released on ILT in 2023.
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ILT’s Favorite Fonts of 2022
It’s that time of year again. Join us as we look back at some of our favorite fonts published on ILT in 2022.
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My Favorite Fonts of 2021
It’s that time of year again. Although, for many reasons 2021 is best forgotten, it was a great year for type design. Join me as I look back and talk about my top ten favorite typefaces published in 2021.
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Emoji b4 emoji
Tens of millions of broadsides were printed from the very earliest days of printing. Many were cheap and ephemeral, eventually being recycled or ending up in the trash. Others, like rebus and puzzle broadsides were novel and engaging enough to live longer lives. This is my very brief look at some early examples of these curious so-called hieroglyphic broadsides.
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Penny Dreadfuls & Murder Broadsides
The Industrial Revolution mechanized printing and reduced costs, leading to explosive growth in publishing. At the same time, an unprecedented increase in literacy produced millions of new readers and sparked a reading revolution. But what were these new readers to read? One of the century’s most popular genres, sold on the streets of Victorian England, was the penny dreadful. Cheap, entertaining and extraordinarily popular. This is their story.
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Black Print
The remarkable story of early African American print culture; its authors, editors, journalists, printers, and publishers. From protest pamphlets to the first Black newspapers, periodicals and books.
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The Writing Mistress
From around the beginning of the 1600s, there was a renewed interest in calligraphy. At the same time, women, known as writing mistresses, begin to teach handwriting and calligraphy to young women. Maria Strick in the Netherlands and Marie Pavie, perhaps from France, are the first two women to have their calligraphy copybooks published in print.
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Death of a Typeface
Robert Granjon (1513–90) was a French type designer who, in 1557, invented a new style of typeface which later came to be know as Civilité, after the civilité or etiquette books which the typeface often appeared in. Although Granjon wished for his Civilité to become the national typeface of France, it never really caught on, and it never seriously competed with Roman and Italic fonts.
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The First Roman Fonts
The Renaissance affected change in every sphere of life, but perhaps one of its most enduring legacies are the letterforms it bequeathed to us. But their heritage reaches far beyond the Italian Renaissance to antiquity. In ancient Rome, the Republican and Imperial capitals were joined by rustic capitals, square capitals […]
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