As far as I remember, almost all of the Linotype fonts mastered in the ’00s (and maybe even the ’10s) had a standardized cap height. Berthold’s phototype fonts had a standardized cap height and I be… (View Post)
As far as I know, the typefounders in the US are casting type with a Monotype-machine kind of alloy. Gerstenberg’s typefoundry casts types from automatic typecasters, with a foundry-type allow, which… (View Post)
When typesetting machines were delivered to customers, they always had to include at least one font, or they would have been useless. At ATypI Dublin, Robin Nicholas told me that – back in the 1960s … (View Post)
Recuttings are possible, but the term “recutting” can only be applied to, well, recuttings of individual type sizes. There are real Garamond matrices in at least two European collections. One could, … (View Post)
Yes, I think that there must be something to your suggestion about the one-story /g feeling more “familiar,” since Fraktur versions of /g always look that way. People seemed to have been quite happy… (View Post)