{"id":498,"date":"2007-09-26T20:17:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T19:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/typo-tour\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T20:17:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T19:17:11","slug":"typo-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Typo Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email today about what is apparently the first <a href=\"http:\/\/sdz.aiap.it\/content\/cartigli\/cartigli.php\">Typographic Tour of Italy<\/a> or <em>Il Grand Tour della tipografia italiana<\/em>.  When I first saw the subject of the email I thought someone was organising a tour of Italy especially for typographers. Then I realised it&#8217;s actually a virtual tour via images and text on a website. There are also links to GoogleEarth, which enable you to see maps and images of the sites where the examples of type and lettering are found.<\/p>\n<p>The site contains examples of inscriptions and signs from around Italy in a variety of styles and provides information about the people who designed the typefaces. Most of the information is in Italian, but there is also <a href=\"http:\/\/sdz.aiap.it\/topografie\/9486\">an explanation of the project in English.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email today about what is apparently the first Typographic Tour of Italy or Il Grand Tour della tipografia italiana. When I first saw the subject of the email I thought someone was organising a tour of Italy especially for typographers. Then I realised it&#8217;s actually a virtual tour via images and text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}