Every internet source got the story of Lorem Ipsum wrong. The Rabbit Hole YouTube channel set out to find the answers.

The Alphabeticians follows a turning point in the life of Lida Cardozo Kindersley, who runs a renowned lettercutting workshop in Cambridge, England.

Having inherited the workshop from her husband and former teacher David Kindersley, Lida poured her soul into her work for nearly half a century. Approaching her seventieth birthday, she prepares for the next step: to hand the workshop on to her son and daughter-in-law. This moment of transition offers a portal to deeper themes: what significance do heritage crafts have in the modern world? And what legacies are we passing to future generations?

A cinematic observational documentary exploring the power of relationships and the resilience of creative spirit.

A newly digitized movie documenting the creating of Monotype fonts, from a designer’s drawing to a finished, cast piece of type.

Lettering artist Martina Flor offers a brief primer on the differences between these crafts.

A novel way to construct a typeface. There’s also a written presentation, and a font.

Everyone is a typographer today, as we can all typeset, style and publish texts. But the art of proper micro-typographic typesetting is getting lost, because our current input devices were never meant to give us access to all characters necessary for sophisticated typesetting. Why is that? And can we do anything about it?

@Mark Simonson demonstrates the creation of bitmap fonts on early Macs. 

Ever been bit by a Unicode bug? Maybe you weren't treating UTF-8 encoded data correctly, or tried to read it as ASCII? Maybe you mixed up UTF-8 vs UTF-16? Unicode and character encoding might seem like a tricky topic, but let's break them down and learn about them piece by piece, from ASCII to code points to graphemes to combining character modifiers and more.

“Thorn, eth, yogh, wynn, ash, ethel, eng, long S & the Tironian et. This video takes you on a tour of the letters we don't use anymore.”

I asked AI to write a song about fonts …

A vowel with two dots above it can have two completely independent meanings. This video explains why. 

“This is a recording of a lecture given online and in-person at the St Bride Foundation on 10 November 2022. We are honoured to be joined by Nicolas Barker to celebrate the life and work of Beatrice Warde, renowned as ‘The First Lady of Typography’.”

Lecture by Dr. Dorothee Ader, Klingspor Museum Offenbach director.

The emergence of photographic typesetting in the 1960s expanded typographic creativity and production. The classic font libraries of Monotype, Linotype, Ludlow and others were transferred to film—badly in most cases. The advent of the digital imagesetter and PostScript saw an explosion of new and derivative typefaces. Romano’s talk covers the technologies, libraries, and luminaries of the phototypesetting era.

An interesting, if limited, look “from outside”.

Is it wrong to say “I bought a font”? Watch this short video and find out.

How to print a list of local fonts with customizable sample texts. For users of Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Adobe InDesign.

Over the entire 20th century the German alphabet officially consisted of 30 lowercase characters, but only 29 uppercase letters. How could that happen?

On the design of MM Sans and MM Serif.

“About typography, paleontology, evolutionism, fixism, interpolation and miscegenation.
With Georges Cuvier, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, Charles Darwin, and FontLab Studio.”

Thomas Huot-Marchand, 7 May 2020

Welcome to the world of PIPE symbols, vertical lines and bars. Why are there two pipe symbols on a computer keyboard? Why are there two vertical lines on keyboards? Why does a solid line produce a broken line? ASCII? What does Ascii and character sets have to do with this? Why is the bar broken? Why is it no longer broken? What does ANY of this mean. Find out within (disclaimer: this video might actually confuse you more than you are right now).