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Pictures & writing, mainly about / art / design / letter­forms / print­ing / pub­lishing / typo­graphy / words on build­ings.

  • By Benjamin Campbell
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly six posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

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Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2022 9
2023 6
2024 1

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

On Ligatures
Typographic glyphs have their moments. The @ symbol was barely used before it became indispensable for email and social media. The creation of the single European currency saw thousands of fonts being reissued to include …
On , by Benjamin Campbell, 58 words
Between Plantin & Times
A as was changed in the 1997 redesign of the London Review of Books. There were no editorial innovations: the table of contents remained undifferentiated, giving the same emphasis to contributions be they book reviews, …
On , by Benjamin Campbell, 60 words
Lead as in Dead
L, printing has generated jargon, which like water will find its way. Some terms which have dripped into the wider language have thrived with their new metaphorical meanings, while withering in the business they came …
On , by Benjamin Campbell, 60 words