What you will learn at CalRBS History of Type in August 2022—no. 3

I will be teaching the history of type at California Rare Book School (CalRBS) August 8–12, 2022. The 5-day intensive class will be based at the Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Along with lectures, discussions, and hands-on examination of typographic artifacts and materials at the Archive there will be field trips to other Bay Area institutions to look at books, broadsides, and more. The class will be small (7 to 12 people).

Here are 10 things you will learn in the class:
1. the difference between Fraktur and fraktur
2. the difference between Roman and roman
3. the difference between italic and oblique
4. the difference between oldstyle and old face
5. the difference between antiqua and antique
6. the difference between Egyptian, Grecian, Latin, Tuscan, and Doric
7. the difference between Joh. Enschedé en Zonen and The Enschedé Font Foundry
8. the difference between FontShop, Font Bureau, and Font Haus
9. the difference between Century Expanded, Century Oldstyle, Century Schoolbook, and Century Gothic
10. the difference between Linn Boyd Benton and Morris Fuller Benton