Absolutely incredible, thank you for making this!
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#12Would love to suggest having a way to get the whole archive and metadata to browse locally or mirror, perhaps via a torrent?
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#13This is awesome! A few months ago I got a tattoo of one of the flowers from https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?page=LKBGE51F3...
I’ve been variously told it looks like the sun, a hedgehog, and a lion & I’m kind fond of all those descriptions
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#14Love this. The 18th century type specimens are gorgeous and it's amazing you pulled them from old digitized books. Do you have plans to add any interactive features like zoom on the images?
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#15Love this. The 18th century type specimens are gorgeous and it's amazing you pulled them from old digitized books. Do you have plans to add any interactive features like zoom on the images?
Thank you! If you click on the images, you get a zoomable, full resolution view.
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#16> https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?page=LKBGE51F3...
Wow this is awesome, they had box-drawing characters in 1785!
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#17So EBCDIC art?
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#19Hey, this archive you've put together is extremely impressive. How did you find all of these? Literally keyword search on digital collections?
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#20Hey, this archive you've put together is extremely impressive. How did you find all of these? Literally keyword search on digital collections?
Thank you! It has taken me a long time. The two main methods:
1. Text content search with keywords/sentences or people's names. This is the best way, but finding good keywords is hard. 2. Randomly browsing, especially typography trade journals. Internet Archive has all issues of Inland Printer for example. Reading through them I've found many new pictures and keywords to do further searches on.