... seen. But back to the point: it is now possible for a machine to create a hitherto unseen typeface. So, if nobody actually looks at ... of his fonts, leaving that supposedly menial task to the Monotype works boys; looking at some of his drawings, it seems that he ...

Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 12:49pm - 145 comments - 0 attachments

... mechanical alternatives like the Linotype Machine or the Monotype Machine —Gutenberg’s method could be called the beginning of ...

Wiki - dberlow - 6 Oct 2007 - 7:32am - 0 comments

... transfer clauses such as the example below. Example; Monotype “You may transfer all your rights to use the Font Software ... licensee of the fonts on his computer before he sold the machine. 2. The seller deletes all other copies of the fonts he has, ...

Forum topic - Geoff Riding - 11 Apr 2006 - 3:53am - 19 comments - 0 attachments

... for stones This sounds typical. Most granite is machine cut, and the lettering looks just awful. Very few people can cut ... (subtle) calligraphic character. Unfortunately, the Monotype digital version is crap (sorry, I’m kinda tired of being nice ...

Forum topic - lolorelei - 11 Apr 2006 - 8:54am - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Indicies : History : Linotype Machine The first Linotype machine was built in New York by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886. Perhaps the ... competitor machines appeared on the market, like the Monotype Machine . Linotype Machines were used well into the 60s and 70s. From ...

Wiki - jlg4104 - 8 Apr 2006 - 8:03pm - 0 comments

... geometry” by the Bentons in their engraving machine, I am now at the point where I would really benefit from having images ... am not sure if you are conversant with the unit systems of Monotype, Linotype etc. Also, don’t be fooled, ATF had their own unit ...

Forum topic - raph - 12 Mar 2006 - 11:33am - 14 comments - 0 attachments

... 1967. This page also has pictures of Beatrice Warde of Monotype and Paul A. Bennet of Linotype, to whom the book is dedicated. I ... that a font is a bunch of shapes (as opposed to a notan machine). hhp When I wrote that “m n r When I wrote that “m ...

Forum topic - William Berkson - 20 Jan 2006 - 1:26pm - 66 comments - 0 attachments

... off-vertical or off-horizontal lines work best. The old Monotype drawing office usually produced work like this. Bembo Book, built on ... and virtually no-one uses it! I used on some weird copier machine (that worked like screenprinting, usd real ink) at 600pdi and it took ...

Forum topic - typequake - 14 Mar 2006 - 9:36pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments

... sets of patterns for each typeface. Adjustments on the machine itself were only used to widen characters in the very smallest ... smaller sizes, it looks wrong. And, indeed, if you look at Monotype (metal) Centaur, there’s little or no anamorphic scaling across ...

Forum topic - raph - 24 Feb 2006 - 11:48am - 15 comments - 0 attachments

... not him because it's a messy ideological wrench-in-the-machine. It's filthy human effluvium. -- The mechanics of bouma ... all those millions of Word users who decide they like Monotype Garamond more than Times New Roman, or vice versa, don’t care ...

Forum topic - Forrest L Norvell - 12 Mar 2005 - 4:47pm - 98 comments - 0 attachments