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Typesetting and paste-up in 1970

Dan Wybrant has a collection of photos with descriptions of the typesetting and paste-up techniques used by a campus daily in 1970. We bitch about InDesign crashing, but we don’t have to type blind with a machine that punches holes onto paper tape. There’s also a lot of fun to be had with a wax machine if you happen to come across one.

Posted 2011/02/07 at 2:43pm / newspapers / typesetting

Typesetters

The Typesetters

This recent image of typesetters, from Shorpy, reminded me of a photo that I took at the National Print Museum in Dublin awhile back. It was of a boy’s indenture agreement to serve as an apprentice compositor in a Letterpress shop. Highlights of seven years service include: no fornicating, gambling or frequenting of ale-houses. I’ve transcribed the document and made the text available.

Posted 2010/05/09 at 5:31pm / compositors / design / typesetting / typography

The Practice of Typography

The Practice of Typography: Modern Methods of Book Composition by Theodore Low de Vinne is available in its entirety online. Originally published in 1904, the book is a treatise on typesetting and the arrangement of pages in books.

Posted 2008/11/28 at 1:02pm / books / ephemera / typesetting / typography

The lost art of type spec’ing

The lost art of type spec’ing. It can get even crazier when you look at the older designers like Tschichold, who could hand-draw type that looked like it was set by machine.

Posted 2008/10/01 at 10:26pm / design / typesetting / typography

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