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Re: typing "foreign" accents.
Czech typewriters had "precomposed" common (l/c) characters, as well as single umlaut, caron, grave and acute keys. I do not remember whether you had to back-space to go under these or whet…1 -
Re: Archiving of physical stuffs.
Not here in the antipodes, we can drink beer while you all have to drink coffee and be proper.1 -
Re: Average number of type designers in a type design group.
Is that bold, medium or light bulbs?1 -
Re: Font production 111 years ago
Wonderful stuff, great pics! From my school experience in hot metal typesetting I remember being given milk twice a day to counter the omnipresent lead, and the fumes, dust, black grime and heat. Qui…1 -
Re: Nomenclature in the 6th century
I have an old Dictionary of Printing Terms with 4005 entries. That is more than just typography: editing, layout, repro, printing, collating, binding, etc. And 30,000 different words sounds too many—…1
