In 2021, the Bibliographical Society of America graciously hosted a conversation about the intersection of typography (specifically, how typography was described, discussed, and understood to function culturally and politically) with discourses of race and gender in early modern England—and in our own moment.

The virtual roundtable covered how early modern typography—broadly construed as the design and disposition of type on paper and within the bounds of the book—was anything but a neutral container for the publication of early modern writing.