Typefounders Of East London

Richard Ardagh, author of Type Archived, A visual journey through typographic history introduces the typefounders of East London. Join typographer and designer Richard Ardagh for an illustrated talk this Saturday November 14th at 3:15pm at the Bloomsbury Jamboree about the people, places and processes behind East London’s remarkable typefounding history. Click here to book for Richard Ardagh’s talk The Caslon tomb at St Luke’s, Old St Typography can be thought of as the vehicle of words, giving them both form and voice. It is easy to take for granted how quickly we can compose and spread words today when, for centuries, type was manufactured as countless millions of individual physical components, a prerequisite for making the printed word possible. East London played a huge part in the development of the typefounding industry, acting as a crucible (to use a relevant term) from which came many firsts: styles such as Sans-serif, Slab-serif (or Antique) and Clarendon were all the…

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