Hello,
I’m busy collecting anecdotes in relation to type or to a specific letter. I know there must be loads around but i can't seem to find very many. Does anyone know any funny, interesting, exciting stories? It could also be a surprising type-historical fact.
These are a couple of examples i've found already...
There story is about a Sabotage act in the White House which apparently happened shortly before George W Bush and his staff moved in. Apparently the former staff made a practical joke and removed as many “W” keys from all the keyboards in the White house as they could.
Peg Entwistle, a failed hollywood starlet, who is the only person known to have killed herself using type. She climbed the giant letter H in the famous hollywood sign and threw herself off it.
Roman Kingsley trained his flock of geese to do sky-writing by flying in formations to spell out colpany logos. he said that there were a few teathing problems, trying to get the birds to spell properly was a bt of a problem.
These stories can be real, april fools joke or completly made up. any kind of anocdotes would be really usefull
thanks
Ally