OVENTYPE will edit and write feature articles to understand the culture surrounding the written word, delving into a single theme from among all the events surrounding fonts and typography.

Another Face of Blackletter

Why is that? The black letters we see in pop culture are next to the bad guys. It's as if we get the impression of cool, boisterous delinquents who are about to get into trouble at any moment. When did this all start? To fill in the gap between the austere impression we get from the Gutenberg Bible and newspaper mastheads, we look back on 100 years of Blackletter, from HIPHOP, ROCK, Satanism to Nazism.

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The Cambria Explosion of Modern Typeface

Did the birth of the display typeface revolutionize how letters look? The devices used to make bigger, bolder, "short words" readable have colored the world in rough and sometimes beautiful ways. From fat faces to woodcuts, we now unravel the Cambrian explosion of modern typefaces, born at the dawn of the 19th century and buried in the shadows of history.