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British Letterpress in 100 Objects

British Letterpress in 100 Objects

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Category: Types and Casting

DeLittle

The York-based king of UK woodletter

Published February 4, 2023
Categorized as 1800s, Mass Production, Object, Types and Casting, Yorkshire and the Humber Tagged 1880s, De Little, Jim DeLittle, North Yorkshire, Robert DeLittle, Size:In Depth, Type Museum, Wood Type, Woodletter, York, Yorkshire and the Humber

Univers

The serif-less face that took us from the age of metal to the age of light.

Published November 12, 2022
Categorized as Modern, Object, Overseas, Post War, Types and Casting Tagged 1950s, 1957, Adrian Frutiger, Deberny & Peignot, France, Paris, Sans Serif, Serif-Less, Size:In Depth, Swiss School, Univers

Bell

An especially English face that rested in obscurity for 144 years.

Published July 2, 2022
Categorized as 1700s, Craft, London, Object, Types and Casting Tagged 1780s, Bell, British Letter Foundry, London, Richard Austin, Size:Article, Stephenson Blake

Photopolymer

Photopolymer Plate

The clever invention, just too late to make a difference to letterpress’ demise, but that keeps some printers happy today

Published May 28, 2022
Categorized as 1900s, Modern, Object, Overseas, Types and Casting Tagged 1950s, Germany, Photopolymer, Size:Article

Bembo

"Bembo typeface" by Speckled Jim is marked with CC BY-NC 2.0.

Monotype’s sixteenth century-inspired old-style face that was massively popular.

Published April 30, 2022
Categorized as 1900s, Craft, Object, South East, Types and Casting Tagged 1920s, Bembo, Monotype, Size:Post, Typeface

Rule Bender and Artistic Printing

The little machine that allowed jobbing printers inject variety and excitement in to the expanding world of Victorian commerce.

Published April 16, 2022
Categorized as 1800s, East Midlands, Mass Production, Object, Types and Casting Tagged 1880s, 1890s, Artistic Printing, Exchange, Jobbing Printing, Leicestershire, Object, Rule Bender, Size:In Depth

Miller and Richard

Miller and Richard were a significant foundry, based in Edinburgh between 1809 and 1952.

Published January 1, 2022
Categorized as Craft, Object, Scotland, Types and Casting Tagged 1890s, Edinburgh, Egyptian, Lothian, Miller and Richard, Old Style, Pivotal Type Caster, Scotch Roman, Scotland, Stephenson Blake, Typefounder

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Original texts, photographs and graphics, © 2021 Benjamin Brundell

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