Custodians of the National Typefounding Collection 1992–2023
London
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Pleased to announce this exhibition about Type Archive founder Sue Shaw.
From her early career in publishing, to setting up her own imprint producing books of the highest standards, and her instrumental role in establishing the Type Archive, Sue’s achievements were plentiful.
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‘Type Archived’ is now fully funded – thank you!
HUGE thanks to everyone who has supported the project and all those who helped spread the word.
The Type Archive’s collections held materials to make printing types for most languages of the world.
Examples pictured: ‘Ethiopic’ (Ge’ez) punch, Devanagari pattern, Tamil wood letter and Cyrillic button bank.
‘Type Archived’ is now 78% funded
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A beautiful book featuring the treasures of the Type Archive’s collections is in the works.
‘Type Archived’ traces the origins of typography through the physical tools, objects and machinery that made the printed word possible.
Pledge for your copy
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The American Typefounding Fellowship (ATF) Conference 2021 is being held online this weekend (31 July–1 August) and includes a presentation on Monotype Punchcutting at the Type Archive by @richardardagh
See americantypecastingfellowshi… for more info and registration
Some details from Hungry Dutch, a beautifully produced publication by Russell Maret documenting the creation of a new typeface for Monotype composition casting undertaken by the Type Archive team. Available from @oakknollbooks
Type Archive founder Susan Shaw died just over a month ago. She will be greatly missed.
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The Christmas issue of @theeconomist opens with a feature on @thetypearchive by Emma Duncan.
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The Lord’s Prayer on 12pt type.
The Monotype Corporation prided itself on its precision engineering – the surface area measures approx 4mm square and the text itself measures 0.156mm high (NB, one penny coin as reference).
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Wonderful to have alphabetishist with us yesterday to celebrate the completion of Hungry Dutch (series 923), the first new Monotype font for hot metal composition casting in 41 years.
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#hungrydutch #russellmaret… instagram.com/p/B2gl8tJhno-/… – at Lambeth, London
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Join us for a talk on 'Typefounding - An introduction to Monotype punchcutting and hot-metal casting' on the 25th July 2019 at 7pm at the Type Archive. 💬
For more information and tickets, visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/talks-typ…
Join us for a great evening with @philcleaver on Wednesday, 10th of April, 6.30pm at the Type Archive.
We look forward to talking type, design and letters! 💬
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We're excited to start a new lecture series at the Type Archive 💬
Join us for our first talk with multi award-winning graphic designer, book artist and author @PhilCleaver on the 10th of April at 6.30pm.
For more information and tickets, see link below
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Monotype punches for Van Dijck italic, based on the designs of Christoffel van Dijck (1606-1669) which are regarded as the source for C18 English type designs such as Caslon. Released in 1937 following test punches cut by P H Rädisch, the design was supervised by Jan van Krimpen.
Sand casting of large display fonts was pioneered by Thomas Cotterell c.1765. Photos of our experiments @thetypearchive in 2003.
Photos by Andra Nelki
‘Cincinnati’ vertical milling machine, used for preparation of 0.4 inch matrices. Here at @thetypearchive we have continued the work of the original Monotype Corporation by making matrices to order since 1992.
