The dotted ij is part of the text on the screen around the new building of the UB Universiteitsbibliotheek (University Library UvA) in Amsterdam. Erik van Blokland was responsable for the typography. Impressive!
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A large stock of IBM Selectric or IBM composer fonts (type balls) are available at itk-holland.com This is a Dutch company selling second hand equipment and new spare parts for the graphic arts industry and the signing industry. Benjamin is the contact person .
In the largest European Apple Museum in Utrecht (the Netherlands) a complete DTP-installation is shown. The system (Apple Macintosh, Pagemaker, LaserWriter and a Linotronic 300 filmrecorder/typesetter) from 1985 is explained. Several new developments such as ColorSync and Unicode are displayed. This is one of the Unicode displays.
The Karel Martens tear of calendar 2026 has great figures. April 18 has a regular character, the 20 april page looks very condensed. For more info on his subjects see www.martens-martens.com
Dutch designer Karel Martens created a tear off calendar with constructed figures for each day of this year. This is a condensed version.
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@MathieuLommen GHB is most probably G.H. Bührmann, the paper production and merchanting company. Lateron the merged with Tetterode to form BT.
I'am the sixth generation living in the Netherlands. Foreigners from Switzerland, and their parents came from Italy (Parma).
The tear-off calendar designed by Karel Martens is now in use. The Dutch designer made this for Roma Publications in Amsterdam. The calendar was recently introduced in the SM (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam exhibition Karel Martens Unbound) and available via Idea Books (ISBN: 978946440773).
This Microsoft Arial font has 38924 characters. Are there other fonts with more characters?
Funny font pairing in Washington!
Old picture of a strange lettering for a booking office in the Kortedagsteeg in Gent (Belgium). There was even a logo with the mixture of caps and lowercase characters. They recently moved to another building and got rid of "the" or 't. And the other 5 unnecessary capital characters. The old apostrophe hindered. The new lettering is quite an improvement!
In a shop in Antwerpen (Belgium) not far away from the museum "Plantin Moretus" the wayfinding to the department Women (Dames) in a large shop looks funny. The character m got a special treatment. It lost weight!
@lttrspc@typo.social Did you see the Dutch IJ-combination in their new font?