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• Tarte au citrone

  I have to confess to hearing the present story from James Moseley, a fellow typographic historian and retired librarian from St Bride; but as I liked it so much I thought I’d pass on my pleasure. Letterforms can be found in all sorts of places and none... Posted Sep 21 2008, 04:13 PM by caroline Archer with | with no comments Filed under: letterforms, St Bride Library, chocolate, typepographic, London, quill, round-hand, historian

• Flock of words

  Last week I mentioned my visit to Morcambe and the Midland Hotel. Well, the other surprising – and delightful – aspect of this seaside town is it is absolutely covered in letterforms. ‘Flock of Words’ is a path of bird poems, traditional sayings, jokes... Posted Aug 28 2008, 05:07 PM by caroline Archer with | with no comments Filed under: Prints Past, letterforms, Morecambe, Educationric Gill

• On type and trains

  Yesterday I made my first visit to the redeveloped St Pancras Station. Stunning! Like many typographers I have a fascination with railways and there are many parallels between type and trains: the metal, the structures, the engineering, the smell, the... Posted Feb 28 2008, 05:54 AM by caroline Archer with | with no comments Filed under: Design Research Unit, type, Kinneir, Calvert, sans serif, Impact, Typographers, Stephenson Balke, letterforms