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The Merganthaler Linotype Company was an American corporation founded in 1886 to produce the Linotype machine invented by Ottmar Merganthaler. The Linotype machine revolutionised the process of casting metal type used in the printing industry. Whereas before type had to be set by hand the machine automated this process and in doing so increased ...
May 11, 2020 · Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German/American inventor, was born May 11, 1854. Mergenthaler invented one of the least heralded but most vital components of the modern information age: the Linotype machine. Around 1880, the composing room was the principal bottleneck in the printing industry. Every printed page had to be assembled by a composer from ...
Dwiggins' interest in lettering led to the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, sensing Dwiggins' talent and knowledge, hiring Dwiggins in March 1929 as a consultant to create a sans-serif typeface, which became Metro, in response to similar type being sold from European foundries such as Erbar, Futura, and Gill Sans, which Dwiggins felt failed in ...
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Bell Gothic is a sans-serif typeface in the industrial or grotesque style designed by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1938 while heading the typographic development program at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The typeface was commissioned by AT&T as a proprietary typeface for use in telephone directories and has since been made available for general ...
May 28, 2012 · The linotype is a combination between a typewriter, a pop machine and a backhoe. [It] was invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German immigrant. He invented the machine in 1886 and it immediately ...
Galliard (typeface) ITC Galliard is the name of a serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter and issued in 1978 by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. [1] Galliard is based on the sixteenth-century type of Robert Granjon. [2] According to Alexander Lawson, "The name Galliard stems from Granjon's own term for an 8-point font he cut about 1570.
