{"id":18490,"date":"2010-07-08T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T22:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=18490"},"modified":"2010-07-08T03:59:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T10:59:11","slug":"tipoteca-italiana-and-fontes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/18490","title":{"rendered":"tif and fontes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tipoteca Italiana<\/a> is a private foundation that was founded in 1995 to advance printing knowledge and preserve venerable printing technologies. Its founder, Silvio Antiga, a 65-year-old printer who owns a printing firm in the Veneto region, has collected more than 20 vintage presses and typesetting machines, along with hundreds of wood and metal type ‘fonts”<\/em><\/p>\n

From T Magazine, Steven Heller looks at the incredible Tipoteca (tif) and where the term ‘font’ comes from.<\/a><\/p>\n

I haven’t been there, but a friend visited several years ago – and brought me a whole bunch of really cool ephemera.<\/p>\n

Found via Campbell BrownKorbel<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t

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