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Nazi Taint - Redirect from: Design >> Overused Typefaces

... were cast by the Hansestadt Letter Foundry. These are all Monotype cast on a Super Caster. Mint. And they are all for sale, as are all my other remaining ...

Forum topic - hrant - 12 Jun 2003 - 1:44pm - 96 comments - 0 attachments

Trapping

... > If Sabon had been designed solely for Monotype, the roman 'a' could have been put on 8 units My problem ... for the die case and it attendant keyboard stopbars and caster wedge. This is evidenced in Goudy's Kennerley Oldstyle, whcih uses ...

Forum topic - gerald_giampa - 27 Aug 2003 - 6:03am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

Looking for Vogue

... version of Futura) also had an alternate two-story a. Monotype also had a Kabel look-alike called Sans Serif that had alternates to ... require a specialized hand-mould, or an adapted Monotype caster... As I’ve posted elsewhere, As I've posted elsewhere, I'm ...

Forum topic - bshaykin - 25 Jul 2003 - 5:47pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments

Best way to preserve old metal type?

... I use bees wax when casting type on the Thompson Caster. It makes a great mold lubricant and gives the type a pleasant smelling ... to melt beeswax candle into the mold of the other two (Monotype) casters, but the Thompson mold is very accessible, and a thin bees ...

Forum topic - ben_archer - 3 Nov 2006 - 4:28pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments

Date of original production of Bruce Oldstyle?

... and before that a machine version was made by Lanston Monotype ... but I'm looking for the original release by Bruce Type Foundry in ... Unfortunately I was not able to find the designer or caster of the typeface. So If you can help me in that case, would be grate. ...

Forum topic - Tim Brown - 13 Feb 2007 - 1:36pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

The @ character in metal typesetting

... This 'at' starts to appears in the Monotype pattern C (book and news) matrix case. English-standard character set ... If someone is interested.. Georg You have a caster? hhp You have a caster? hhp hrant, I am dealer of the hrant, I am dealer of the ...

Forum topic - cedilla - 16 Nov 2005 - 4:45pm - 29 comments - 0 attachments

Archive through August 27, 2003

... error would never have passed inspection at Lanston, or Monotype or either of the Linotypes. This same punchcutting room repeated ... yes, much cheaper for me. If I had my own Monotype caster/composition machine versa buying photopolymer, don't know exactly. ...

Forum topic - hrant - 23 Aug 2003 - 9:47am - 61 comments - 0 attachments

Show and tell - your letterpress collection (or other curiosities)

... visitors is the shelf unit holding about sixty suites of Monotype Giant Caster matrices. These are what most people in the "private press" area of ...

Forum topic - elliot100 - 23 Oct 2006 - 8:26am - 22 comments - 0 attachments

Is 'Castcraft-software' a real type foundry?

... one time a Castcraft was at one time a distributor and caster of metal type. Both Monotype and foundry. Though tey had licenses to recast with European ...

Forum topic - Ramiro Espinoza - 9 Oct 2006 - 7:11am - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Countdown to TypeCon2006!

... platen press, and have two Linotype machines, two Monotype composition casters and a Monotype display type caster, and about 250 cases of type for hand setting. A typecaster will be ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 20 Jul 2006 - 3:52pm - 73 comments - 0 attachments