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Typeface designer Robert Green has recently rediscovered the ‘Doves Type’, a typeface which has been lost almost 100 years ago.
The typeface was thrown into the River Thames by its owner T.J Cobden-Sanderson, as a means of resolving a feud over its use with his partner at Dove Press.
Green—along with a team of divers—scored the River Thames at the area where he thought the type was thrown from the bridge, spending two days to retrieve 150 pieces of the original metal pieces.
Click play on the video below to find out more about the rediscovery of the typeface, documented by the BBC.
Image via Doves Type
Image via video screenshot
Image via video screenshot
Image via video screenshot
[via Laughing Squid, BBC]
Image via Sam Armstrong, Typespec
Typeface designer Robert Green has recently rediscovered the ‘Doves Type’, a typeface which has been lost almost 100 years ago.
The typeface was thrown into the River Thames by its owner T.J Cobden-Sanderson, as a means of resolving a feud over its use with his partner at Dove Press.
Green—along with a team of divers—scored the River Thames at the area where he thought the type was thrown from the bridge, spending two days to retrieve 150 pieces of the original metal pieces.
Click play on the video below to find out more about the rediscovery of the typeface, documented by the BBC.
Image via Doves Type
Image via video screenshot
Image via video screenshot
Image via video screenshot
[via Laughing Squid, BBC]