Public Typography: Lost Type

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A warm beginning. PUBLIC TYPOGRAPHY EXISTS EVERYWHERE PEOPLE DO. Public type is a necessary addition to any town, no matter the size. Public type ages, decays, lives, and breathes inside the communities it was commissioned to serve. Towns don’t always last, people don’t always need them in the same ways they once did, and as times change the citizens of a town may move on to places more suited to their needs. Whilst a town may empty, dwindle, disappear, public typography does not. Typography always remains behind, a reminder of the life a town once had. What happens to this public type when glory days are long gone and the purpose for existence is but a fleeting memory?


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