Thanks to a comment by pf on an earlier entry, I have discovered Typographica, a typography blog—or, as they describe it, “a journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.” It’s edited by Stephen Coles and Joshua Lurie-Terrell and has been around since May 2002; one of the first entries (by Lurie-Terrell) would have been equally at home here at LH:
There Are 10’s of Thousand’s of Way’s to Apostrophisize
Why does the New York Times use 80’s and 90’s (for example) as shorthand for referring to decades/eras? They aren’t possessives, but rather contractions of 1980s, 1990s, etc. Most journalistic and typographic stylebooks suggest using ’80s and ’90s — makes sense to me. What’s the deal? I wrote the paper to ask but no response.
(Except that I would have italicized New York Times.) The only downside I can see to reading it is that their book reviews are going to tempt me to further overload my poor groaning shelves.
Link shamelessly swiped from the sidebar at exempli gratia, which is by the way a fine new-ish blog I’ve been reading for a month or so.
Sententia; minimus dare: no Known antecedants.
It’s the same idea as minding your p’s and q’s: the naked plural looks weird next to a symbol, which numbers are and in this case letters are too.
Typographica appears to be dead as the moa, alas.
But its traces still exist in the Internet Archive.
Typographica: not dead, just moved. Blog-type commentary is infrequent, but there’s a new one on the very day of the last comments (Oct. 7, 2018), on “The Last Time the US Considered Copyright Protection for Typefaces”.
Another current typography blog: I Love Typography, with a recent article on <a href="https://ilovetypography.com/2018/08/24/a-brief-history-of-the-index/"A Brief History of the Index which is definitely in Language Hat territory:
… leading into a history from the first library catalogue of the Library of Alexandria to the widespread adoption of the page-number index in the 16th century. Alphabetization and pagination are technologies, which had to be invented.
Sorry: A Brief History of the Index
Thanks, I’ve replaced the blog URL. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a way to locate the entry about “Thousand’s of Way’s to Apostrophisize”; maybe they’ve ditched a lot of early stuff?
That post is archived here. I found that URL by going to archive.org and entering the original URL in the Way Back Machine search at the top, then choosing the first date there was an archive for.
Thanks! I substituted that URL in the post, but I see now that I quoted the whole thing.