Typography

Letterforms and the people who cut them. Roman and italic, Garamond, Baskerville, Bodoni, Caslon, blackletter, the punchcutter's hand, Gill and Zapf and Frutiger, the Swiss grid, phototypesetting and the leap to digital type.

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75 moments in this segment.

  1. - 07 Bodoni. Material relating to Giambattista Bodoni, the Parma punchcutter and printer whose type specimens defined the modern face.
  2. - Giovanni Battista Bodoni (1740-1813), graveur et typographe italien, 1802, ND5025. Material relating to Giambattista Bodoni, the Parma punchcutter and printer whose type specimens defined the modern face.
  3. - Allegorische verheerlijking van de boekdrukker Giovanni Battista Bodoni, RP-P-2010-9. Material relating to Giambattista Bodoni, the Parma punchcutter and printer whose type specimens defined the modern face.
  4. - Allegorische verheerlijking van de boekdrukker Giovanni Battista Bodoni, RP-P-2010-9 (cropped) - Rijksmuseum. Material relating to Giambattista Bodoni, the Parma punchcutter and printer whose type specimens defined the modern face.
  5. - De Vinne 1876 - Punch and matrix. Punches and matrices, the steel punch is cut by hand, struck into copper to make a matrix, and the matrix casts the type. Modern photograph.
  6. - César Antéchrist title page. Title page to Alfred Jarry's 1895 publication of César Antéchrist, the play that preceded his most famous work, Ubu Roi. Jarry set the typeface by hand in an unconventional style that would be emulated by mant avant-garde book artists in years to come.
  7. - Linotype Machine. One of the first linotype machines installed in the Printing Office, Government Print Office, ca. 1903. R21572926 AAUR W3549 111 P158
  8. - Linotype PK-F-A.01555. Title Linotype PK-F-A.01555 Creator/other Andriesse, Emmy (1914-1953) Shelfmark PK-F-A.01555 Subject (topical) Men (male humans)Typesetters (people) Subject (geographic) Nederland Other version Contactafdruk in contactalbum IIA, p. 61 Note Werkzaamheden in een letterzetterij, een typografisch bedrijf. Language No linguistic content Country No place, unknown, or undetermined Extent scan Published/c
  9. - Linotype machines, Anthony Hordern and Sons department store, c. 1935. 1103/Vol. 3/Boxes 1-3
  10. - Linotype operators of the Chicago Defender
  11. - Russell Lee, Linotype operators of the Chicago Defender, 1941. Linotype operators of the Chicago Defender, Negro newspaper. Chicago, Illinois.
  12. - Monotype, Linotype and remelting the metal. Huntley Film Archives footage of 1940s typesetting and type being melted back down.
  13. - Tel Aviv. Typograaf aan het werk achter een linotype zetmachine in de drukkerij. Collectie / Archief: Fotocollectie Van de Poll Reportage / Serie: Israël 1964-1965: Tel Aviv, drukkerij Dawar Beschrijving: Tel Aviv. Typograaf aan het werk achter een linotype zetmachine in de drukkerij waar het dagblad Dawar (Davar) wordt gedrukt Annotatie: De Linotype is een regelzet machine waarin de functies van zetten en gieten verenigd zijn. De machine werd door een Duitse immigrant ont
  14. - Apprentice linotype operator at Queensland Times, Ipswich, 1975. Linotype, typesetting machine by which characters are cast in type metal as a compete line rather than as individual characters as on the Monotype typesetting machine. It was patented in the United States in 1884 by Ottmar Mergenthaler. Linotype, which has now largely been supplanted by photocomposition, was most often used when large amounts of straight text matter were to be set. In the Linotyp
  15. - Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu. The New York Times's last day of hot-metal typesetting in 1978, filmed as the Linotypes were shut down.
  16. - Movable type - Flickr - adactio. Movable type, individual sorts of metal or wood assembled into a page. Modern photograph.
  17. - Tipos-de-letra. Punches and matrices, the steel punch is cut by hand, struck into copper to make a matrix, and the matrix casts the type. Modern photograph.
  18. - Numeral types - Flickr - reingestalter. Movable type, individual sorts of metal or wood assembled into a page. Modern photograph.
  19. - Winkelhaken. A composing stick holding hand-set metal type, the compositor’s basic tool. Modern photograph.
  20. - Bleisatz im Winkelhaken. A composing stick holding hand-set metal type, the compositor’s basic tool. Modern photograph.
  21. - Winkelhaken mit Quadraten. A composing stick holding hand-set metal type, the compositor’s basic tool. Modern photograph.
  22. - Wooden composing stick. A composing stick holding hand-set metal type, the compositor’s basic tool. Modern photograph.
  23. - Tempering punches and striking matrices. Second part of the type-founding series: hardening the punch and striking it into copper.
  24. - Punchcutting at the Atelier Press. Historian and craftsman Stan Nelson cuts a steel punch by hand, the first step in making type.
  25. - Print works typesetting, Beamish Museum, 4 June 2011. Letterpress printing, relief printing from metal or wood type. Modern photograph.
  26. - Monotype machine keyboard. The Monotype system, a keyboard punched a paper ribbon that drove a separate caster producing individual sorts. Modern photograph.
  27. - How mechanical typesetting works. A Prelinger Archives training film explaining the Linotype and Intertype hot-metal line-casting machines.
  28. - The Linotype demonstrated. Ireland's National Print Museum runs its Linotype and explains the keyboard, magazine and casting sequence.
  29. - The Monotype caster demonstrated. The National Print Museum runs the Monotype caster, which casts individual sorts from a punched paper ribbon.
  30. - The Monotype keyboard. The other half of the Monotype system: a keyboard that punches a paper ribbon rather than setting type directly.
  31. - The Ludlow typecaster. A demonstration of the Ludlow, which cast display lines from hand-assembled matrices.
  32. - Inside The Times, 1980s. Archive footage of the newspaper's offices and production in the last years before computer typesetting.
  33. - Kumar and the lost art of punchcutting. D&AD visits the Type Archive in Lambeth to film hand punchcutting.
  34. - Monotype Garamond italic. The Monotype system, a keyboard punched a paper ribbon that drove a separate caster producing individual sorts. Modern photograph.
  35. - Lettres de bois à la brocante de L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. Movable type, individual sorts of metal or wood assembled into a page. Modern photograph.
  36. - Handsetzers Handwerkszeug. A composing stick holding hand-set metal type, the compositor’s basic tool. Modern photograph.
  37. - A tour of a working type foundry. Robert Magill shows the machinery and technique of casting metal type at Monumental Type Foundry.
  38. - Phototypesetting on a Berthold Diatype. A Berthold Diatype phototypesetting machine of about 1960 filmed at work.
  39. - Ningxia Museum wooden moveable print frame. Movable type, individual sorts of metal or wood assembled into a page. Modern photograph.
  40. - The last punchcutter. A short film on one of the last people cutting type punches by hand.
  41. - La linotype en action. France's Musee de l'imprimerie runs a Linotype, the machine first put to work at the New York Tribune in 1886.
  42. - Bi Sheng, inventor of movable type. On the 11th-century Chinese artisan who made movable type from fired clay, four centuries before Gutenberg.
  43. - Linotype matrix anvil (1). The Linotype, the line-casting machine that from 1886 let one operator set and cast a whole line of type at a keyboard. Modern photograph.
  44. - Linotype machine Manchester works plate. The Linotype, the line-casting machine that from 1886 let one operator set and cast a whole line of type at a keyboard. Modern photograph.
  45. - A Linotype demonstration. National Museum of Industrial History runs its restored Linotype and explains the keyboard and matrices.
  46. - Typography: a very short introduction. Paul Luna on typography as the design of the reading experience rather than decoration.
  47. - Atex and TeX. Computer History Museum session on newspaper composition systems and Knuth's TeX.
  48. - Monotype keyboard at MOP Haverhill - 1. The Monotype system, a keyboard punched a paper ribbon that drove a separate caster producing individual sorts. Modern photograph.
  49. - The font wars. Typography.Guru on PostScript against TrueType and how the Macintosh won desktop publishing.
  50. - How the Linotype works. Ireland's National Print Museum explains the line-casting machine in brief.
  51. - Generika Type Specimen. Type founding, the moulds, machines and workshops that cast metal type. Modern photograph.
  52. - Screenshot of Patron type specimen on Milieu Grotesque website. Type founding, the moulds, machines and workshops that cast metal type. Modern photograph.
  53. - Brezel Gortesque Type Specimen. Type founding, the moulds, machines and workshops that cast metal type. Modern photograph.
  54. - Myth-busting metal type. A book historian corrects common misconceptions about how movable metal type was cast and used.
  55. - The Linotype at the German Newspaper Museum. Wadgassen's newspaper museum demonstrates Mergenthaler's 1884 composing machine.
  56. - Casting type on a Monotype Super Caster. A working type foundry casts letterpress type on a 1940s English Super Caster.
  57. - What makes a typeface legible? Ask science. A Letterform Archive panel bringing reading science to bear on type design claims.
  58. - Italic type and the portable book. A talk on how the first italic typeface helped spread the small-format printed book.
  59. - Linotype: the film. Feature documentary on the machine Edison called the eighth wonder of the world, and the men who ran it.
  60. - Linotype clutch. The Linotype, the line-casting machine that from 1886 let one operator set and cast a whole line of type at a keyboard. Modern photograph.
  61. - 1945 Linotype Model 31, Tallahassee Automobile Museum. The Linotype, the line-casting machine that from 1886 let one operator set and cast a whole line of type at a keyboard. Modern photograph.
  62. - Druckerei J.J. Augustin, Glückstadt, Monotype-Taster 1964, mit äthiopischer Schrift 03. The Monotype system, a keyboard punched a paper ribbon that drove a separate caster producing individual sorts. Modern photograph.
  63. - Druckerei J.J. Augustin, Glückstadt, Monotype-Taster 1964, mit äthiopischer Schrift 04. The Monotype system, a keyboard punched a paper ribbon that drove a separate caster producing individual sorts. Modern photograph.
  64. - Zilvertype font. Punches and matrices, the steel punch is cut by hand, struck into copper to make a matrix, and the matrix casts the type. Modern photograph.
  65. - The origin of movable metal type: the type road. Second part of the Korean documentary, tracing how metal type technology may have travelled west.
  66. - A Monotype operator explains his machine. Former Monotype operator Claude Clotier walks through the keyboard and caster he worked on.
  67. - Typesetting and printing for World Typing Day. Sacramento History Museum sets type by hand and prints the result.
  68. - Caslon, the typeface that shaped print history. On William Caslon's roman and how it became the default English book face for over a century.
  69. - The Linotype and the machine age of print. A long documentary on the Linotype, the line-casting machine that made the mass-circulation newspaper possible.
  70. - Ibn Muqla and the proportioned script. On the 10th-century Abbasid vizier who systematised Arabic letterforms using the rhombic dot and the alif as units of measure.
  71. - Linotype 2503-0230. The Linotype, the line-casting machine that from 1886 let one operator set and cast a whole line of type at a keyboard. Modern photograph.
  72. - Aldine types in France. A typographic history lecture on how Aldus Manutius's Venetian types were adapted by French punchcutters.
  73. - Casting type on Monotype and Linotype. C.C. Stern Type Foundry volunteers cast type for a poetry project on both hot-metal systems.
  74. - The role of x-height in word recognition. A research paper on how x-height affects how quickly letters and words are recognised.
  75. - The last night a newspaper was set in hot metal. An account of the final hot-metal newspaper composition and the moment the trade ended.
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