Celebrating 12 years of Typophile today!

[Jared Benson]

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Typophile launched 12 years ago today. What are your favorite moments in our history? Point out your top threads that have the best entertainment, reference, and/or quotable value.

Happy Birthday everyone!

[Nick Cooke]

Hhp birthday to you!

[Jared Benson]

The Pangrams thread
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/100928-forwarding

20 most important type designers of all time
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/40388-forwarding

A tutorial for good typography in InDesign - Setting up a baseline grid
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/57265-forwarding

Famous quotes from typographers
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/23406-forwarding

Top Ten Things Not To Say on Typophile
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/22938-forwarding

[Dav]

Happy 12th Birthday, Typophile!

Favourite moments in Typophile history?
At one point being part of what I would call ‘The Typophile Type ID All Stars’, back in the day. ;)
(And of course valuable insights and views on typography & type design, in general.)

[Dav/formlos — Typophile Member Nr 977, Since 10 Years 8 Weeks]

[hrant]

That crazy one with lesbian philosophers.

BTW, there's something I need to get off my chest, after all these years: I'm really really sorry I missed the first two weeks. ;->

hhp

[Joe Pemberton]

One of the longest Typophile threads spans 9 years and began in October 2002:

What are you listening to?

[Riccardo Sartori]

Happy 12!
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/79526-forwarding?page=4#comment-486997

[Nick Shinn]

Congratulations!

[Riccardo Sartori]

Anyway, one of my favourite thread is one in which, unfortunately, I didn’t partecipate:
http://typophile.com/battle32

[Joe Pemberton]

Twelve Ts in honor of our 12th year. #Pinttttttttttterest http://pinterest.com/typophile/found-type/

[dtw]

What Riccardo said – in fact, most of the early type battles where there was a lot of participation.
Happy birthday Typophile :^)

[Alvin Martinez]

Typophile (Ty·po·phile) place : A safe haven where designers can blissfully obsess about typographic minutiae.

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Happy Birthday! Congratulations on your 12 years!

~ A

[mili]

Hyvää syntymäpäivää! This thread suits the celebration:
(Beer lables) http://www.typophile.com/node/49157
Kippis! (Cheers!)

[Mark Simonson]

Happy birthday, Typophile!

[Theunis de Jong]

Next week will only be my fourth year, but I've had a lot of entertainment already. For some reason unknown this thread, for example, appears in my "Recent activity" list: Where do I get Neo Sans Family?.

As with all older threads -- dug up deliberately by some Johnny-come-lately, risen from the ashes because of a misdirected Google search, or brought back to life by a mischievous spammer -- I cannot help wondering if this guy ever found his personal Holy Grail o'Fonts, or just went ahead and became an accountant, woodworker, or Adobe Helpdesk operator, got married, fathered two children, and never thought back on his whimsical post on a Typophile's hangout. (Probably not the part about marrying as that thread is just 2 years old.)

[rs_donsata]

Gerald Giampa annoyed me a lot, but I miss him, he was a big contributor.

[Frode Bo Helland]

From the Neo Sans thread: “If I buy and download only Neo Sans Regular, is it possible that I italicise and bold this font?” Hahaha!

[Ryan Maelhorn]

Congrats!

[Richard Fink]

congrats

on the web, 12 years is several lifetimes, an accomplishment

[mike_duggan]

I miss, miss giggles :)

[Bert Vanderveen]

@Mike: Well, Miss Giggles spawned ‘schools’ of lazy students, begging for info and pointers and even ready-to-go papers to present to their professors (why aren’t those on Typophile?).

Anyway, this is one of a very select group of sites I visit everyday, in fact several times a day… Must be a reason for that.

[brianskywalker]

I'm quite disappointed not to havegg been around earlier. Not so much to join in the conversions but that some of the old threads are utterly screwed from system updates.

Anyway, yay twelve years! :D Here's to twelve more.

[Nick Shinn]

Here’s a magazine article I wrote in the early days:
http://cl.ly/1m0M213S0V0N0o034342

[jasonc]

Happy Birthday, and thanks for all the info!

Jason C

[Riccardo Sartori]

Some other good threads:
http://typophile.com/battle20 (this is the one I wanted to link to originally)
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/75861-forwarding
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/75922-forwarding
And I think one of things typophiles do best is dissecting minutiae:
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/75886-forwarding
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/82769-forwarding
And critiquing typefaces:
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/70316-forwarding
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/82128-forwarding