ATypI 18 Antwerp Type Legacies Conference

The True source of the Sans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz5X9my_X5Q

Published online January 2019[Play, and Listen online to the Presentation while studying the Slides on Figshare. Or download the low-res Presentation with presenter notes .pdf]
Abstract.
The search for the origin of today’s commercial sans serif typography has become something of a “holy grail” for type historians. The earliest known example of a deliberately geometrical “serifless” letterform was confirmed back in the late 1990s, on a...

The quantitative data extraction form used in the CRiB systematic review.

Contributor to Ways of Thinking, Published by the Ruskin Press, Cambridge in March 2020.
ISBN 978-1-912319-02-2
OBJECTS: 'seemingly overlooked'
pp.31-34
ETRVSCA - Bishop Sans
Abstract: Date stamps on posted letters were introduced in April 1661 by Britain’s first ‘Postmaster- General’ Henry Bishop, in order to counteract accusations of unscrupulous behaviour by employees of the Crown’s postal service. ‘Bishop Marks’, as they became known, served a similar function to Roman ceramic...