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    Type: A Primer of Information About the Mechanical Features of Printing Types: Their Sizes, Font Schemes, &c. with a Brief Description of Their Manufacture
    Type: A Primer of Information About the Mechanical Features of Printing Types: Their Sizes, Font Schemes, &c. with a Brief Description of Their Manufacture
    Type: A Primer of Information About the Mechanical Features of Printing Types: Their Sizes, Font Schemes, &c. with a Brief Description of Their Manufacture
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    Type: A Primer of Information About the Mechanical Features of Printing Types: Their Sizes, Font Schemes, &c. with a Brief Description of Their Manufacture

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    Release dateDec 3, 2019
    ISBN4057664579331
    Type: A Primer of Information About the Mechanical Features of Printing Types: Their Sizes, Font Schemes, &c. with a Brief Description of Their Manufacture

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      Type - A. A. Stewart

      A. A. Stewart

      Type: A Primer of Information About the Mechanical Features of Printing Types

      Their Sizes, Font Schemes, &c. with a Brief Description of Their Manufacture

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664579331

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE

      MECHANICAL FEATURES OF TYPE

      A Font of Type

      A WEIGHT FONT

      The Sizes of Type

      Lining Type Faces

      Kerned Types

      Spaces and Quads

      How Type is Made

      The Linotype

      The Monotype

      Ingredients of Type Metal

      Wood Type

      SUPPLEMENTARY READING

      REVIEW QUESTIONS

      SUGGESTIONS TO STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS

      QUESTIONS

      GLOSSARY OF TERMS RELATING TO TYPE

      TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES

      ACKNOWLEDGMENT

      CONTRIBUTORS

      PREFACE

      Table of Contents

      This treatise is the first of a series of text-books, published under the general title of Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices, which have been prepared under the auspices of the Committee on Education of the United Typothetae of America, for the use of printers’ apprentices and students of typographic printing.

      As will be noted by the table of contents, only the mechanical features of type and the usual methods of its manufacture have been considered here. No attempt has been made to review the history of type-faces or the development of type-making processes. These phases of the subject are considered in other publications of the series (see p. 36) and in supplementary reading recommended for students (p. 28).

      It is not what they are but what they can be made to do under the control of trained intelligence and skilful hands that makes printer’s types of importance to the world. No tools used in modern industry seem simpler than these little pieces of metal, yet they are the product of the most highly specialized skill and ingeniously perfected mechanisms. To the young printer their physical elements are matters of first concern. An understanding of these elements may be only a small part of his trade education, but it is important. The possibilities and the limitations of type can be appreciated only by thorough familiarity with the technical details and niceties provided by the modern typefounder.

      A special feature of this series of technical publications is the list of Review Questions, which will be found at the end of each treatise (see pp. 29-31). These questions cover the essential points in each subject and will be of assistance to instructors, for examinations, etc. A list of the other titles of the series, as well as a statement of their plan and scope, will be found on pp. i-vii of this publication.

      MECHANICAL FEATURES OF TYPE

      Table of Contents

      [A piece of metal type]

      Printing owes its development first and chiefly to movable metal types. The so-called invention of printing was the discovery of a method of making serviceable type in quantity. The idea of a separate type for each letter of the alphabet was probably conceived long before Gutenberg’s time, but it remained for him and his associates to devise an apparatus for making them quickly and accurately enough to be of practical value. That apparatus was the type mold, which experience has since proved to be the most efficient means of securing exactness and uniformity in a number of small pieces of metal.

      Type is made of an alloy of lead, tin, and antimony. Its length (technically called height-to-paper) is .918 of an inch. Each type is cast separately in a mold, and has the letter or printing character in bold relief on one end.

      Exact uniformity of body is necessary in order that the types, when composed in lines and pages, may be locked together by pressure at the sides so as to make a compact mass. All types in a printing form must be of the same height, so that their faces may present a uniformly level surface from which an impression may be made that will show all the characters clearly. A short type will

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