"Doves, like the bird, is a fleeting type," Garfield says. The typeface was designed in 1900 by T.J. Cobden Sanderson, who was "a real aesthete. He thought he could invent the perfect, most ...

Green’s updated digital Doves font, available at typespec.co.uk. Several designers have attempted to revive Doves Type over the years, including Walker himself, but most interpretations were either ...

The ‘Doves Type’ font was thrown into the river in 1916, after T.J Cobden-Sanderson, who had originally commissioned the font, fell out with Emery Walker, his business partner at Dove Printing ...

Somewhere at the bottom of the River Thames lies a font. Thomas Cobden-Sanderson, creator of the typeface known as Doves—first seen in the 1902 Doves Bible—was fearful that after his death the ...

Printing blocks for a typeface called Doves Type have been discovered in the River Thames. The font has not been used for nearly a century as the printing type blocks, used to print letters, were ...

In 1916 TJ Cobden-Sanderson threw his precious Doves typeface into the River Thames in London after a bitter row.. Almost 100 years later, designer Robert Green set out on quest to restore it for ...

A feud between founder T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and partner Emery Walker of the Doves Press—whose masterpiece was the five-volume English Bible, printed in Doves Type circa 1905—culminated in ...

Printing blocks for a typeface called Doves Type have been discovered in the River Thames. The font has not been used for nearly a century as the printing type blocks, used to print letters, were ...