Research Directory
Manufacturing
Digital Type
- A History of TrueType by Laurence Penney
- About OpenType (Adobe Systems Inc.)
- Font Formats (Adobe Systems Inc.)
- Font Formats (Ellen Lupton)
- Screen fonts, type online
- The Impact of OpenType by Phil Baines (Eye Magazine)
- TrueType & PostScript Type 1: What’s the Difference? (Thomas Phinney)
- What is the History of TrueType? by David K. Every
Foundry Type (Handsetting)
- How Big is a Font? (Fred Williams, Amalgamated Printers Assoc.)
- Identifying Type Castings (Fred Williams, Amalgamated Printers Assoc.)
- Making Type by Hand (Aimee Dozois)
- The Great Type Blight Mystery (Fred Williams, Amalgamated Printers Assoc.)
- The Joy of Handsetting Type (Fred Williams, Amalgamated Printers Assoc.)
Hot Metal Composition
Linotype Casting Machine
- Linotype Maintenance and Operation
- Linotype: Sequence of Machine Actions (Linotype & Linotipisti)
- The Linotype (Fred Williams, Amalgamated Printers Assoc.)
- The Linotype in England (Mechanism & Operation)
- Woodside Press
Ludlow Typograph
Monotype Keyboard & Casting Machine
- International Monotype Memory Project (letterpress.ch, Geneva)
- Short film of the Monotype keyboard & caster (Tipoteca Italiana)
- The Monotype Story (Fred Williams, Amalgamated Printers Assoc.)
- Typecasting with Monotype (The Alembic Press)
- Woodside Press
Photos of Hot Metal Casters
Thompson Type Caster
Rogers Typograph
Photo Composition
Type Foundries (Historical)
- American Type Founders Company
- American Type Founders Company Specimen Books (click on the atf files)
- American Type Founders Instruction Cards (Hannes Famira, TypEdu)
- Bruce Type Foundry
- Guide to Historical Type Foundries in London (St Bride – Downloads a PDF)
- H.C. Hansen Type Foundry
- J.E. Hamilton Holly Wood Type Company
- Linotype
- Mackenzie & Harris
- Monotype Chronicles, The (Lawrence W. Wallis)