Good Types/Bad Types – 50th Anniversary of the Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture

This is a recording of a lecture delivered in-person and live streamed at the St Bride Library on Thursday 18 November 2021.

‘There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.’ Beatrice Warde

With David Williams, Ellen Lupton, Erik van Blokland, Liron Lavi Turkenich, Martina Flor, Paul Barnes and Tré Seals.

Join us online and in-person for the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture. For this special event, we have invited seven designers, type designers and typographers to talk about good types/bad types.

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This talk is part of our ‘Celebrating 125 Years of St Bride Library’ lecture series,
which has kindly been sponsored by:

• Eric de Bellaigue
• Jerry Wright
• Peter Longland
• Trevor Fenwick

and The Wynkyn de Worde Charitable Trust who have sponsored students and recent graduates to attend this lecture.

To find out more about the St Bride Library, please visit: