The Gorgeous Typeface That Drove Men Mad and Sparked a 100-Year Mystery

100-year-old Typeface, rediscovered

Over the course of more than a hundred illicit nightly trips, this man was committing a crime—against his partner, a man who owned half of what was being heaved into the Thames, and against himself, the force that had spurred its creation. This venerable figure, founder of the legendary Doves Press and the mastermind of its typeface, was a man named T.J. Cobden Sanderson. And he was taking the metal type that he had painstakingly overseen and dumping thousands of pounds of it into the river.

100 years later, a London designer set out to find the type.

via The Gorgeous Typeface That Drove Men Mad and Sparked a 100-Year Mystery.