Fred Smeijers

Making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now

Counterpunch

Explaining the sixteenth-century method of cutting metal type, Counterpunch is illustrated with early type specimens, and detailed photos of punches. Smeijers sees the technique as essential for ensuring regularity, repeatability, and speed of production necessary for rational design.

Making Type in the Sixteenth Century, Designing Typefaces Now

Typography is still dominated by letterforms from the first one hundred years of European printing. Where were the processes and attitudes that lie behind these forms? Fred Smeijers is a type desinger who learn to design and cut punches: the key instruments with which metal type is made. This book is a work of practical history, with much contemporary relevance.

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