What you will learn at CalRBS History of Type in August 2022—no. 50

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 about in the class:
1. the difference between a solidus and a virgule
2. the difference between a prime and an apostrophe
3. the difference between a question mark and an interrobang
4. the difference between a hyphen and a dash
5. the difference between a serif and a foot
6. the difference between italic and oblique
7. the difference between an ampersand and a Tironian et
8. the difference between a pilcrow and a dagger
9. the difference between a dipthong and a ligature
10. the difference between an umlaut and a diaresis