The Type Museum
Comments (0) The Type Museum is extraordinary place. Dealing with typography myself on daily basis it was absolutely amazing to see how the colleagues from the past where actually doing their job. To get your designs and layouts out took actually quite machine engineering and crafting and art and passion. WOW!
Just seeing a full working Monotype machine producing metal letter patterns in “run time” was like seeing invention ghost himself telling you a story about purpose of engineering, usability and design.
The work flow:
- You type the copy on a “Monotype Corporation” machine that produces a punch coded card (this is in years just before 1900!!!!)
Monotype Corporation Code Punching Machine
- You put the punch coded paper on the typesetting machine
- Machine runs and “reads” the punched code, and blows air trough letter matrix, matrix moves to the recognized letter code to a character previosly typed on the Monotype keyboard, hot metal is injected in to the matrix, releases and goes trough water cooling system and…
- … the letter set is lined up on the layout setter!
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