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A reference companion to the museum — writing and typography, printing and publishing, documents and their formats, and the world of digital documents. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Writing & Typography

The craft of the written word — writing systems and alphabets, typefaces and serifs, calligraphy and handwriting, grammar and punctuation.

10 entries

Printing & Publishing

How words are multiplied — the printing press and movable type, letterpress and offset, lithography, bookbinding, and the world of publishing.

14 entries

Documents & Formats

What we write on and send — paper and papyrus, scrolls and codices, letters and envelopes, forms, manuscripts, and stationery.

14 entries

Digital Documents

Documents in the computer age — PDFs and word processors, OCR and scanning, e-signatures, Markdown, Unicode, and document management.

9 entries