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Double Scotch: the Austin foundry's role in the development of modern type
Based on my recent book, Transitional Faces, about Richard Austin and his sons, I will discuss their role in creating types for London foundries at the end of the eighteenth century (such as "Bell," "Fry's Ornamented" and Porson Greek) and put forward my thesis on why there were two versions of Scotch Roman launched at the same time in the early nineteenth century.
