Apple has recently licensed fonts from foundries such as Commercial Type, Klim Type Foundry and more to be used as system fonts on Mac OS Catalina.

It’s obvious where “the press” comes from. But there are also other commonly used words where the connection to typography might not be that obvious.

Last year the printing museum Pavillon-Presse in Weimar (Germany) created a digital catalog for their letterpress font collection.

Before asking for a font identification, consider if the letters you see were made using fonts to begin with.

There is no doubt that they are used this way today. But is that something we should fight or embrace?

The Council for German Orthography published a new version of the German orthography which finally makes the German alphabet complete.