My pre-Twitter life was from ca.1520–1589. Garamont and Granjon were my contemporaries at the time. Today, Dr. Frank E. Blokland voices my thoughts via Twitter.
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Join us for an online info session about the Origin of Type Frameworks (OTF) course on
📅 Friday, Aug 15, 2025
🕒 15:00 CEST (Amsterdam time)
📍 Zoom | Hosted by Jürgen & Frank
🔗 Register via email: otf [at] lettermodel [dot] org
🔍 Details: lettermodel.org/OTF-course.h…
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Melting Metal; Developing Typecraft describes the research into punchcutter frameworks from the Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassicism by the graduates of the EcTd 2022–23 course. The first digitally printed edition is now available in DTL’s book boutique. dutchtypelibrary.nl/Shops/Bo…
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Last Friday, the exhibition Rosart: Revival of a Punchcutter opened in the Janskerk (Noord-Hollands Archief) in Haarlem. Rosart was not highly regarded by his contemporaries and now it is time for a revaluation. The expo runs until June 30, 2023. See also: rosart.nl
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Glossa, an interpretation rather than a revival and explores the boundaries of interpretation through Renaissance forms. Designed by Emerson Eller during the Expert Class type design course, Plantin Institute of Typography, Antwerp. Tutor: Frank E. Blokland.
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It is always nice to see Frank's passion and knowledge in the Expert Class. It's extremely inspiring. Thanks @ExquisiteFonts I'm learning a lot!
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For those who don't know, I have an instagram account with the goal of sharing my work and educational content about the type world. Check it out instagram.com/pedromellotype…
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Beautiful mini-site for the The Rosart typeface Project
(from @ExquisiteFonts & @revolvertype)
rosart.nl
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First Teaser of our soon to be released “Le Rosart” typeface family.
“Le Rosart” is a revival based on the types cut by Jacques-François Rosart in the 18th century.
The project started at the Expert Class Type Design of the Plantin Institute for Typography in Antwerp in 2015.
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We're very pleased to share these images of the redesigned @Handelblatt daily, a work of @DrMarioRGarcia with Sven Afhüppe, Michel Becker, and Henrik Balzer. Our #Guyot family was the chosen typeface for the main headlines and body texts. #newspaperdesign #editorialdesign
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This Thursday 6:30pm EST, tune into our live #InterviewThread with @RevivingType! Chapter lead @FMEREB will interview authors Nóra Békés & Céline Hurka. Q&A after. Retweet to enter #giveaway, a copy of Reviving Type!
Sponsor @typedirectors
Design @GabeSerrano
#TypeThursdayNYC
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For those who missed the news: GlyphCollector by @krks_gbr is a design/research tool that collects, organizes and calculates averages of characters based on a scan of a printed page. The tool is free, works on macOS, Windows and Linux, and is open source: glyphcollector.app/.
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Teaching Python again today for the Expert Class Type Design - first time as an online session. @PlantinInst
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🙌Very happy to hear that our friend @krks_gbr finally released Glyph Collector, a software that allows you to collect all instances of one letter in a document and can create averages. Makes your revival process a lot more enjoyable!🙏
Check the website glyphcollector.app/
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TypoMagical, controversial, provocative, a bit heretic, and now available as free downloadable PDF: ‘Reflections on Type and Typography […]’ dutchtypelibrary.nl/Download…. The printed version is even nicer because after all, it is a booklet meant to be printed. dutchtypelibrary.nl/Shops/Bo…
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Fancy Q-solution; found in the collection of the
Museum Plantin-Moretus. Order our book revivingtype.com/ now, and enjoy more of our photos in print! 📘
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22 Nov. the expo on the Joh. Enschedé printing house opens at the @NHArchief in Haarlem. Spring 2020 a section on the historical/digital aspects of the related Rosart Project dutchtypelibrary.nl/Rosart_P… rosart.nl and DTL Fleischmann dutchtypelibrary.nl/PDF/Type… will be added
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DTL’s [Gros] Canon Project (dutchtypelibrary.nl/GCR_Proj… and youtube.com/watch?v=zFzc4o54…) further continues with the reproduction/adaptation of the GI48 by Hugh Macfarlane: probably the oldest surviving mould (Museum Plantin-Moretus) dating from around the second half of the 16th century.
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Fan-tas-tische boekhistorische cursus in december in Leiden. Aanbevolen!! Plantin Instituut voor Typografie | College Boekwetenschap plantininstituut.be/nl/boekw…
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Those who wonder what these two dinosaurs –of which no doubt one has died out– have to do with ‘Reviving Type’, or, for example, the restoration of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel on the attached image, can find some more information here: typedrawers.com/discussion/3… (bottom page).
