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Hannah Fry has a short video up on YouTube  expressing her love for the A4 paper size . I think she's wrong, 8 1/2 by 11 is the only cor...

Statue of Polybius, Alois Düll, 1899 (Vienna, outside the Parliament of Austria). David Warren's post today prompted me to comment: Whe...

The Impossible Chinese Typewriter Julesy Chinese is just nuts. It says something about the human mind that it is able to master such a c...

Linotype YouTube Movies & TV Kind of long, but totally worthwhile. One of the projects I worked on at my first programming job was a...

I'm sitting outside on my backyard patio in my shirtsleeves, drinking a beer, listening to some tunes and just generally enjoying life w...

Canon MG Series PIXMA MG2525 Inkjet Photo Printer with Scanner/Copier Finally broke down and bought a new printer. Darling daughter hasn...

Part of a cross-written letter from Samuel Randell written in 1854 Reading The Ramada Inn at Shiloh  by Allan Gurganus and I come acr...

The Coronation of Charlemagne by Friedrich Kaulbach Illiterate promoter of literacy. Came across this question on Reddit . The answer ...

I am filling out an insurance claim form and I notice that the printed text is not very clear. This line in particular is sets a new standar...

Casting Shop, with women breaking off excess metal and rubbing the type at the window Spitalfields Life has a photo essay about The Cas...

We have uppercase ( capital ) and lowercase (small) letters, but numbers are just numbers, aren't they? It turns out there are a couple ...

Upper Case & Lower Case Iamna turned up this visual explanation of the origins of a bunch of terms used in typography. The above il...

Lowercase Letter A with a couple of obscure measurements. I've been working intermittently on my gears program . I want to replace ...

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Michigan Mike reports on commercial printing: Lots of progress has been made in printing. Large highspeed inkjets are now (or will soon ...

I changed the default font on this blog today. Times-Roman is okay for paper, but serif fonts don't do read so easily on the screen. Onl...

Facit typewriter tab stop rack I've been writing more C language computer code recently, so I'm looking for a place to post it o...

At the table, clockwise from left as seen from above: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, ...

Stu is talking about how happy German Chancellor - Dr. Angela Merkel is with the USA and the NSA's behavior . John (UK) leaves a commen...

Detroit Steve sent me a link this morning . When I open it I see this: The apparent random distribution of boldface characters makes me...