“The Renaissance Typography Database brings together information relating to the history of printing materials (typefaces, engraved blocks) used in Europe from the 15th to the 17th century. It is based on over twenty years’ work by the team of the Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes, in close partnership with the Computer Science Laboratory at the University of Tours. […] The database enables the description and indexing of materials appearing in numerous digital libraries.”

Chapters:

• typography in ten minutes
• summary of key rules
• foreword by Erik Spiekermann
• introduction
• why typography matters
• type composition
• text formatting
• font recommendations
• page layout
• sample documents
• appendix

The main goal of this project is to list diacritical combinations that exist in real life. Because of the methods used, all other data (absolute and relative frequency, position within words) is not and cannot be 100% accurate.

Two main operations were performed during the analysis:

• The first operation was to find and count occurrences of each diacritical letter and combination. The results of this operation should be highly accurate.
• The second operation was to detect possible positions of each combination within words. For now, the results of this are far from perfect, because for it to be exact, finding every existing word in all of its forms is necessary. Therefore, if a certain combination isn't marked as Is a word, Can start words or Can end words, it doesn't mean that it actually cannot, it just did not occur in the respective position in the analyzed text.

The site is run by Sarah Werner. She is a book historian and digital media scholar based in Washington, DC. She worked at the Folger Shakespeare Library for nearly a decade as Undergraduate Program Director and as Digital Media Strategist. In her role as the former, she was responsible for founding and leading the semester-length program for students doing advanced research on books and early modern culture. Her book and this website grew out of that teaching experience. 

Under the Scripts and Manuscripts headings, one can choose a manuscript culture and follow the development of scripts through the centuries. Lessons include simple exercises to help one grasp important concepts. Lessons on Latin Scripts do not necessarily require a knowledge of Latin.

Transcribing Manuscripts offers a chance to practice reading the scripts covered in the Scripts and Manuscripts lessons. Each transcription exercise includes an answer key. The lessons in Transcribing Latin or Syriac Manuscripts assume a knowledge of Latin or Syriac respectively.

He maintains a large online encyclopedia about type design, typefaces and fonts. 

The website offers several tools and games to help familiarising with some aspects of typography and type design.

In 2013, a companion book has been published.

Concept: Johannes Bergerhausen, Hochschule Mainz, Germany

Research: Dr. Deborah Anderson, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, USA

Type Design: Font »BlockDock« by J. Bergerhausen and Jérome Knebusch, 2015—2018

Font »MissingScripts« by J. Bergerhausen, Arthur Francietta and Morgane Pierson at ANRT, Nancy, France, 2016 — 2018

Design: Ilka Helmig, Johannes Bergerhausen, Cologne 2018

Design/Coding/UX: wysiwyg*, Düsseldorf 2018

A project by Mark Jamra (TypeCulture Foundry)

The site is published by Ralf Herrmann and went online in February 2015. It was largely modelled after Herrmann’s German typography site Typografie.info, which is running since 2001. 

The book was made available for free online, but the project can also be supported through the purchase of the paperback or PDF version. 

“Type-manufacturers employed women as part of departments that were variously known as ‘drawing studios’, ‘type drawing offices’, or ‘departments of typographic development’. These women worked daily on developing and producing typefaces that were, eventually, almost always attributed to male designers. They merit attention as key contributors to the design process of many renowned typefaces that emerged throughout the twentieth century.

‘Women in Type’ is a research project highlighting the work of these women. It focuses on their roles and responsibilities between 1910 and 1990 within two major British companies: the Monotype Corporation and Linotype Limited.”