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Typography Tuesday

Here are some examples of chromatic wood type borders from an untitled and undated specimen catalog of the Luzern, Switzerland, wood-type manufacture Roman Scherer (1848-1922), produced ca. 1905. Scherer founded Holztypenfabrik Roman Scherer in Luzern in 1877, designing and manufacturing wood type using wood from local fruit trees. Scherer’s company was the first and probably the only Swiss wood-type manufacturer, operating until the late 1970s. 

The business remained prosperous after Scherer's death, but in the mid-1960s the foundry had to shut down because of the construction of Swiss Autobahn 27, and in 1966 the company was acquired by the Haas Type Foundry and moved to Münchenstein near Basel. Manufacture of wood type slowed and in 1976 production was moved to Gedi-Schriften of the Diller brothers company in Bamberg, Germany. Today, Scherer type catalogs are much sought after.

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TAYLOR SWIFT

Me Again is the twelfth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on 18 July 2025, by Republic Records. Written in the months after Swift had concluded her career-spanning Eras Tour, the album is inspired by “the strange feeling of suddenly being very close to your young, wide-eyed self again, while simultaneously making very adult choices”. The nostalgia present in many of the lyrics is reflected in the album’s sound – produced by Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Aaron Dessner – , which is inspired by the music of the 1990s, such as alternative and indie rock as well as dream pop.

(imagining TS12 as a 90s-inspired soft rock record in the vein of So High School and Hits Different)