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2024-11-29

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By Sonya Rapoport. Unknown year, but looks like something from the 1980’s Shoe Field exhibition that we’ve posted about before.

2024-11-29

1700s, print, Typography, usa.

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After complaints about Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”. via publicdomainreview

2024-08-06

2010s, 2018, font, grid, usa.

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Stack, a font by JTD Foundry, 2018. Inspired by the lettering on old industrial chimneys. Interesting to see a different kind of grid.. via

2024-07-29

2020s, 2022, ansi, petscii, resolution, scene, usa, xbin.

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Graffiti-inspired ANSI, PETSCII and XBIN works by Smooth, 2022. Extra large resolution on some of these (160 chars wide).

2024-07-26

1940s, 1944, custom charset, font, Typography, usa.

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Alpha-blox, a font by American Type Founders, 1944. via

2024-07-23

2000s, 2004, usa.

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Faith by Michael Klauke, 2004. Ink on paper, He calls this textual pointillism, and there is lots more here.

This works consists of writings on religion or spirituality by three men associated with science – one Jewish (Albert Einstein), one Christian (Isaac Newton), and one Muslim (Al-Kindi).

2024-07-19

1970s, 1975, print, typewriter, usa.

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Spread by Dorothy Yule in Upper & Lowercase Magazine Vol 2, No. 4, 1975. via

2024-07-11

1880s, 1881, emoticons, print, usa.

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Emoticon-like characters in The Humboldt Union, Kansas, May 14, 1881. via Yesterday’s Print.

More 1800s emoticons here,

2024-07-03

1980s, 1983, usa.

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The Hubot robot, 1983. A 50 kilo robot with speech synthesis, radio, a built-in Atari 2600 and many other features. Not sure if the graphics are textmode, but it looks like it? via

2024-07-02

2020, 2020s, ansi, ascii, scene, usa.

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