Typography

On a barely related note, my good friend and Resurgence art director Matt Aebersold has a great blog post up with some notes on the history and development of typography:

Read his whole post here. He's got cool art and design-related stuff on his blog all the time, and he posts a lot more than I do.

If you like typography, check out these old foreign-language typefaces:

This is a crop from a 1728 typeface specimen sheet by William Caslon. You can see the whole high-resolution image here. Caslon was an Englishman who designed guns and typefaces in the early 1700s, and he basically became one of the founding fathers of English typography. The font I used for the first image in this post is based on his work.