In 1913 T.J. Cobden-Sanderson threw the most beautiful type in the world into the river Thames

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/07/in-1913-t-j-cobden-sanderson.html

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Was he charged with littering?

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Thames New Roman?

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So CR and LF were a problem even back then ?

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I’m sure I saw the digitisation here on BoingBoing a while back, but I can’t find the original post

https://typespec.co.uk/doves-type/

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Yehs, it was Ten point Thames. Pardon may pronunciation.

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I wish I had more “likes” to give you.

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You must have a terrible, dad sense of humor.

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In fact, I got my terrible dad sense of humour from my dad.

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It comes with the WHY?!?!? Chromosome.

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