The origins of cursive typefaces: from handwriting to type
A documented history of cursive writing, italic and script type, from Aldus and Moreau to Stirling and OpenType. English and Spanish.
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Research, applied typography and notes on how type behaves across identity, editorial and digital systems.
Tuscan typefaces: a form without a fixed territory
From divided serifs and wood type to chromatic printing and transatlantic circulation, Tuscan type is best understood as a mobile grammar of display rather than a single fixed style.
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Why this typeface?
Choosing a typeface is not a matter of identifying a category or confirming a preference. It means testing how a typographic voice answers a function, behaves with real content and sustains a system in its intended context.
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Origin and evolution of the ampersand
The ampersand as et ligature, printer’s character, branding sign and expressive typographic drawing.
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Herbert Bayer, Austrian graphic designer, typographer and photographer
Bayer’s Bauhaus language of reduction, structure, photography and functional typographic communication.
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Typography in Branding
How type becomes brand infrastructure across identity, interfaces, documents, campaigns and editorial systems.
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Theory of colours
Colour as light, perception, hierarchy, cultural signal and practical tool for visual systems.
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The impact of William Morris on design
Craft, ornament, publishing and social criticism in Morris’s lasting influence on modern design.
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Nicolaus Jenson: pioneer of modern typography
Jenson’s roman type, Venetian printing and the balanced texture of the readable printed page.
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Art and visual perception
How perception organizes figure, ground, rhythm, hierarchy and typographic clarity.
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The origin of the Latin alphabet
From Phoenician signs to Greek vowels, Etruscan mediation and Roman capital letters.
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