First type session with Graham.
"Type well used is invisible as type,
just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed
vehicle of the transmission of words and ideas. BEATRICE WARDE"
LINOTYPE TYPEFACES
OLD FACE - from the 15th 17th cent
transitional 17th - 19th century
modern face 20th Cent
Slab serif - 19th Cent
Sans serif - 1890
Decorative and display
Script and brush
Black letter and broken - Nod to history when Gutenberg press first introduced.
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