ATF Newsletter

The American Typecasting Fellowship

This is intended to be an archive of all of the back issues of the American Typecasting Fellowship Newsletter. It isn't "official," because nothing about the ATF is official (see its delightful by-laws). It is, however, presented here with the permission and support of Richard L. Hopkins, co-founder of the ATF and, since its beginning, the sole member of the Communications Committee (and printer & publisher of the Newsletter).

For more information on the group, see the CircuitousRoot ATF Notebook.

A note on (in)completeness: This archive is still in progress. At present, Newsletters Nos. 1 - 18 are from my own scans of my copies. These aren't necessarily pretty scans, and the files sizes can be quite large. (Also note that my copies of Nos. 3 - 11 were bound with a great deal of love and glue by a former owner. This is apparent in their condition as scanned.) I'm awaiting PDFs of scans of Nos. 1 - 37 & 39 from another ATF member who has scanned them with more attention to appearance and file size. Newsletters Nos. 38 and 40 are PDFs supplied by Rich Hopkins, who printed the originals. His PDFs are a combination of his digital originals for those portions which were printed digitally and scans of those portions printed letterpress.

(The lists associated with each issue are simply my own notes. For the most part they aren't, strictly speaking, tables of contents.)

• The Conference is Over But Fond Memories Remain.
• Conference Proceedings to Be Published via Letterpress.
• Typecasters Organization Established at Meeting.
• By-Laws of the American Typecasting Fellowship.
• Official Delegates at the Terra Alta Conference.
• Notice: Chicago Monotype Operation Being Sold [A & P Typographers].
• Unclassified ATF Type Faces and Sizes [6 page table from 1951 American Type Founders Descriptive Price List; information complied by Stevens L. Watts.]

• News of ATF Formation Spreads Quickly; Enquiries Are Varied.
• Sophisticated Computer Stuff. [finding Monotype paper tape at Radio Shack!]
• Query: Got Authentic 'Fat Face' Mats?
• The Poor Man's Remelt Furnace. [a deep fryer, adapted]
• Proper Alignment for Sorts. [reprint from Lanston, 1939]
• [Duensing acquries English Thompson and 16x17 Comp. Caster]
• Query: Who Was Thompson?
• Feller, Matthews: Goudy's 'Companion.' [revivals]
• A Bit of Nostalgia from Paul Duensing. [caster in scrapyard]
• Czarnowski Open Again. [Baltotype, Volker Bros.]
• Query: How Do You Heat Old Bruce's Pot.
• Hot Metal Typesetting Chill.
• Roy Rice: Insulating Your Thompson. [if gas, DON'T]
• Koike advertisement, reprinted.

• Rare Thompson Specimen Studied.
• Complete Listing of Thompson Fonts by Number.
• Useful Information on the Thompson Caster.
• Thompson-Thompson to Monotype-Thompson Symbol Translations.
• Monotype Standard Screw Threads.
• Berliner: Who Was John Thompson?
• Cade: About the Thompson Gas Pot. [BTU/vol, orifices]
• Monotype UK: Still Committed to Hot Metal.
• Let's Share Thompson Molds.
• Correspondence and Notes.
• Classifieds.
• Barney Rabin Cuts His Own Linotype Mats.

• Maybe a Conference This Summer.
• Followup to the Thompson Article.
  • Giant matrix mold notes.
  • Rule-Casting Attachment.
  • Thompson T. M. Co. and Linograph.
  • John Thompsons personal machine.
  • Additional Thompson matrix font numbers.
• Source for Engraved Matrices. [Design Trends, Inc.]
• Hopkins: Bits & Pieces About Composition Caster Operation.
• Hopkins: On Shipping and Storing Typecasting Equipment.
• More People 'Found' with Lots of Equipment.
• All Matrices Aren't the Same Depth.
• Correspondence.
• Modern Hand-Mold Proposal Being Developed. [Stan Nelson, with drawings]
• Yes, Virginia, Once There Was Hand-Set Type for Doing Music.
• Maurice Annenberg and Bill Turner obituaries.
• Classifieds.

• Summer Conference is Definite 'Go'.
• This Was Best in Typesetting 100 Years Ago. [Thorne/Simplex/Unitype]
• Hartzell to Have Warehouse Sellout. [incl. 2 pantograph punch cutting machines]
• Typecasters Gather on West Coast. [Dan X. Solo "Benton" pantograph from England]

• A Most Memorable Conference. [No. 2, Larchmont & New Rochelle, NY]
  • Account of tour of American Type Founders (June 30).
  • Account of tour of Columbia's ex-ATF/Bullen collection.
• Two Reflections on Today's Type Technology.
• Monotype Sells Mat Libraries.
• The Living Legend: American Type Founders Company.
• McGrew: The 'Other' ATF.
• Correspondence. [incl. first letter from Arvind Patel]
• Horowitz: Lubrication: The Key to Successful Typecaster Operation
• Nebiolo Foundry Gets Revived by Employees
• Letters.
• Classifieds.

• Special Conference in Britain Proposed.
• Postscript to ATF Article in Last Issue.
• Self-descriptions by/of private type foundries:
  • Paul Hayden Duensing: The Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing.
  • Jim Rimmer: Pie Tree Press & Type Foundry.
  • Stan Nelson: The Atelier Press & Typefoundry.
  • John Grant: Grant Locomotive Works Foundry and Print Shop.
  • Robert Halbert: The Private Foundry of Robert Halbert.
  • Roy Rice: The Recalcitrant Press & Typefoundry.
  • Phil Cade: Cade Type Foundry
  • A. R. Soule: [no name for type foundry]
  • Owen Stout: [no name for type foundry]
  • Richard L. Hopkins: Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry.
  • Vance Gerry: The Weather Bird Press. [Linotype, Thompson]
  • Hartzell Machine Works, Inc.
• Some Laughs and Some Serious Concerns.
• The Haas Typefoundry.
• Printing News Tells of ATF.
• Death Claims Pioneer Private Typecaster; Shop Virtually Lost! [Harry Weidemann]
• Collectors Face Good Guys & Bad Guys.
• Reviewihng Bruce's First Patent. [No. 632, 1838]
• Useful Tidbit for Persons Importing Matrices.
• Former Thompson Mat Source. [National Matrix Co., Baltimore]
• Missing, Missing. There Always Seems to be One Mat Missing.
• A Giant of a Hot-Metal Shop Slowly Fades Into Silent Oblivion. [US GPO]
• Wintertime Uses for Old Type.
• Richard E. Huss Proposes Book on 'The Composition Matrix.'
• Piccoli Suggests Logo
• Type Designs Cast by ATF Members [assembled by Guy Botterill from castings by Pat Taylor, Paul Duensing, Harold Berliner, and Rich Hopkins]
• Thirty 15x17 Monotypes to be Auctioned by GPO March 1, 1982.
• Correspondence
• Classifieds.

• Oxford Meeting is Great Success.
• Indian Foundry is 'Discovered.' [Gujarati Type Foundry, Bombay]
• A Hidden Meaning. [cartoon]
• Letters. [incl. Andrew W. Dunker; also John Risseeuw query about Charles Broad]
• Self-description of: N. Fritzberg: The Hansestadt Letterfoundry.
• Death of Frank Sassaman, prop. of Sterling Type Foundry.
• On Keeping Old Machines Alive. [Paige Compositor]
• Advertisement for Huss' The Printer's Composition Matrix
• Note on piece by Dan X. Solo in Graphic Arts Monthyly on the shop of T. J. (Tom) Lyons.
• Moving a Caster Isn't an Impossible Task.
• A Pro Will 'Beat the Book' Every Time. [visit of several experienced castermen to Hill and Dale]
• Mail-Order Mat Cases. [Monotype matrix cases as trivets, paperweights, or wall hangings]
• Hartzell Will No Longer Make Matrices.
• Classifieds.

• D.C. Conference Set for June 21-24.
• European Hand Type Still Available. [Haas, Neufville, Stephenson-Blake, Stempel, Yendall/Riscatype, Amsterdam-Tetterode; Gujarati, Technograf, Typoart, Grafotechna]
• Will Your Hobby Shop Outlast You?
• Monotype Casters Take Back Seat to Microcomputer - Temporarily.
• Announcement of Delay for Huss' The Printer's Composition Matrix.
• A VIP Tour of Monotype International. [illustrated]
• Paul Quyle. A Tyro's THoughts about Oxford Meeting.
• Paul Hayden Duensing. 'Typographically Famous' at Oxford Conference.
• Typefounder from India Visits U.S.A. [Modi]
• Relocated Monotype Equipment To Be Used in Book Arts Teaching.
• Barney Rabin. Difference in Making Own Lino Mats Explained
• English Linotype Organization Still Offering Matrices for Sale
• Mac F. McGrew. Lanston's Matrix Numbering Explained. [with compiled list]
• Seeking Equipment? Perhaps Here Are Some Leads. [alas, now long gone]
• Roy Rice. Making Paper by Hand - Since the 17th Century.
• U.S. [Lanston] Comp Matrix Production Continues - Facilities Now in California at Mackenzie-Harris.
• [Note: includes partial photograph of a punch record card.]
• Historic Matrices, Early Literature, Trditional Process Demonstrated. [at Oxford Univ. Press & St. Bride Library]
• [Jim Rimmer, (nearly) finished drawing for type.]
• Sterling Type Foundry Trdition to Be Continued - Dave Churchman Buys Plant, Moves It to Indianapolis.
• [Facsimile of top of Thompson Type Machine Company invoice dated 1928]
• Jim Rimmer. Original Font Cut in Lead, Matric[e]s Are Electroformed.
• Various Private and Commercial Typecasting Projects Reported.
• Letters.
• Classifieds.

• [Quote from Rudolph Koch printed on tissue]
• Some Information on Back Issues for You and Bibliographers.
• Conference Captures 'Fellowship' Spirit. [4th Conference, Washington, D.C.]
• A Sterling Type Foundry Partner. [David W. Peat]
• Complete Alphabet Showings of Two Original Metal Designs Are Revealed by Jim Rimmer.
• [Showings of 18 pt Juliana Oldstyle and 18 pt Nephi Mediaeval.]
• Linotype is the Subject of Dissertation. [George Corban Goble]
• Stephen O. Saxe. The Bruce Legacy to Typefounding.
• Typecasting Activities, Publications Noted
  • Harold Berliner specimen.
  • Duensing Engraves Zapf's Civilite.
  • Rice Electroforms His Own Matrices. [with showing]
  • Type Being Imported from Hong Kong.
• McGrew's Compilation of Lanston Monotype Matrices Alphabetized.
• The 'Myth' About Metal Hardness. [Personal Note (DMM): All non-typefounders who go on about metal composition need to read this.]
• The Why of Lead, Tin & Antimony
• Letters [incl. Stan Pauling, ex-Republic Type Foundry, cutting punches by hand.]
• Gerald Giampa, Jim Rimmer Prepare Exceptional Cover and Insert
• Lieberman Endowment Established
• Recent History, Yet So Very Long Ago.
• 'Unknown' References Held in Stephen Saxe Collection. [incl. National Compositype Catalogue of Matrices]
• Nelson Perfecting Traditional Process
• Computer Aids Hand Composition
• Who Designed Helvetica? Gertraude Knows. [on Gertraude Benohr]
• English Member Acquires a Typograph Caster
• Unnecessary Machine Adjustments
• More Letters
• Media Reports: ATF Meeting, Stan Nelson
• Where to Next?
• A Brief History of Lanston Monotype
• Classifieds [incl. Morneau Typographers]

• Indianapolis to Host Conference July 11-13.
• California Firm Buys ATF Foundry Facility. [Kingsley]
• Huss' Printers' Composition Matrix available.
• Reviewing Updike's Montallegro Design of 1904. [Casting by Pat Taylor, Out of Sorts Foundery[
• Monotype Films Available. [Schlesinger]
• A Thompson Operating Lever for Your Safety. [Duensing]
• Jim Walczak (Sycamore Press & Typefoundry) casting of Kennerley type & border fleurons.
• Sterling Type Foundry ad.
• Can We Perpetuate Hot Metal?
• Type Metal Firm Quits. [Imperial]
• Report of Recent Typecasting Activities at the Hill & Dale. [Showing of Cooper Oldstyle, Lanston No. 282]

• Cover (front and back as one image) from a lithograph by Duval & Hunter as tipped into Ringwalt's American Encyclopaedia of Printing (1871)
• 1988 Conference Plans Announced.
• Indianapolis [1986 Conference]: Belated Story
• Prepare Now to Attend Conference
• What's the Weather Likely to Be in July?
• '20th Century Types' [McGrew] A Winner!
• [Paul Hayden Duensing:] What is This ATF, Anyway?
• Book Documents Stempel Foundry. [Smets/Wilkes. vom Schrifgiessen]
• [James A. Parrish:] On Buying a Ludlow
• An Appreciation for Old-Time Craftsmen. [in "type houses" / advertising typographers]
• ... Or Were They That Special?
• True Confessions: "I Murdered Four Monotypes"
• Letters.
• 100-Year-Old Puzzle About to Be Solved. [Schlesinger on Mergenthaler]
• 19th Century Industrial Trade Museum Envisioned by Writer from Staten Island.
• An Extraterrestrial Typecasting Proposal.
• Re-Composing Silent Movie Title Screens. [Artcraft]
• Early Thompson Manual Reprinted. [David C. Churchman reprint of 1916 manual]
• Un-Classified Ads.

Here is the cover image as a single image (as scanned from my copy of the journal; this is not from the separate reproduction distributed by Rich Hopkins). If you click on the image below you'll get a 2048 pixel wide JPEG version.

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Here is the composited image at 1200dpi (but as a JPEG; it's "only" 56 Megabytes, but a PNG would be 269): atfnl-n12-1200rgb-cover-image-composited.jpg

• Cover image by Stan Nelson adapted from The Penny Magazine.
• Quotation from Fournier in Harry Carter translation.
• California Site for 1990 Meeting.
• [Pat] Taylor Downsizes His Out of Sorts Typefoundry.
• Norm Cordes. Some Solid Advice Before Buying a Linecaster.
• Robert Schladetzky. Talk About A Bargain.
• An Overview of the TA [1988 Terra Alta] Conference.
• Jim Rimmer. Typefounding in Vancouver's Chinatown. [incl. Man-Nen and Hua Nan type casters]
• Acquisitions, Gripes, Museum Notes, Comments. [Correspondence]
• Hot Metal Support Coming to End at Monotype.
• [Centerfold: Hill & Dale casting/showing of 48 pt Caslon Italic No. 4371.]
• Has Anyone Ever Considered Air-Cooling Thompson Mats?
• When Discarded Equipment is Discovered, We're Obliged to Go and 'Check It Out'!
• They've Offered Me a Machine... Should I Take It?
• From New York to Idaho. [Marlboro Mats]
• Greg Walters. A Newcomer's View of the ATF Conference.
• [Photo of Stan Nelson holding hand mold.]
• Ed Rayher. A Low-Key Diversion Or a Boost to My Obsession?
• "They Crowded Into Rooms ... And Melted Metal." [newspaper story of ATF Conference, reprinted]
• [Pat Taylor illustrating dangers of Thompson (p. 25)]
• Paul Hayden Duensing. "Opportunity to Interface with Like-Minded Souls."
• Trip to German Cancelled
• Guy Botterill. "From Hot-Air Balloons to Colonial Williamsburg."
• Sycamore Type Foundry [Jim Walczak] Gets a New Home.
• Proper Diagnosis is Key to Successful Operation. [Composition Caster]
• What Standards Are Standard? ["Monotype Line" alignment for cellular matrices]
• Vance Gerry [Weather Bird Press]. Each Typecasting Effort 'Jinxed.'
• Was It Difficult Dealing WIth an Overseas Company? [Experto Industrial Engravers Pvt., Ltc., India]
• Heartwarming Stories of Lost Matrices Found.
• Here's a New U.S. Source for Custom-Engraved Matrices. [Kayenay Graphics, Mason City, IA / John Henry]

The cover image by Stan Nelson is derived from an illustration of a type foundry which appeared in the second installment of a four-part article entitled "The Commercial History of a Penny Magazine." This appeared in four "Monthly Supplements" to The Penny Magazine (which despite their status as "supplements" bore their own whole issue numbers in the regular sequence of issue numbers of the magazine). Installment No. 2, on "Wood-Cutting and Type-Founding" was in Monthly Supplement of The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , Vol. 2, Whole No. 101 (Sept. 30 - Oct. 31, 1833): 417-424. Here is the image as it appears on p. 424 of the original, as digitized by Google from the Bodleian Library copy. (Click on the image for a PDF of the entire issue of the magazine.)

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• [Editor's Preface on the significance of 1890.]
• History of Machine Type Casting.
• [Portrait of David Bruce, Jr.]
• [Illustration of Bruce Pivotal Caster.]
• Reprint of Dickenson Type Foundry ad/showing of Quaint Open and Quaint, 1890.
• A Plea for the Tramp Printer. [Reprints of articles by F. Marion Cole and Duncan F. Young, 1890]
• Typesetting Contest. [Nov. 9, 1890]
• [Portraits of compositors Peter Thienes and Leo Monheimer]
• Reprint of Golding & Co. ad showing their Standard Job Composing Stick.
• "... Purely An Inventor's Dream" [Typesetting machines]
• Woodcut of the Kastenbein Typesetter (1881).
• Advertisement for the Thorne Typesetting and Distributing Machine (1890).
• The 'Blower' Linotype. [with illustration]
• The New Form of Mergenthaler. [Preliminary review of "Square Base" Linotype]
• The Mergenthaler Linotype Printing-Machine. [1890 review of "Square Base" Linotype]
• [Illustration of the "Square-Base" Linotype.]
• The Rogers Typograph
• The "Triangle" Monotype Machine. [with illustration]
• Reprint of Hamilton Manufacturing co. Wood Type ad.
• Related Activity in the Industry in 1890. [Lighting, Power, the Point System, Familiar Names, Methods of Illustration, Typefounding]
• [Reprints of MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan advertisement for / showing of French Script and Stipple.]

• [Cover is an image of the form used to print the first page]
• Inside front cover: sketches by Vance Gerry from the Nevada Conference.
• Font Memories of Nevada City.
• Williamsburg Meet To Be July 10-12, 1992.
• A 1914 Contest: Linotype vs. Monotype.
• Ad for The Dale Guild / Theo Rehak.
• Lead Poisoning: Some Practical Observations.
• A Guy Who Wasn't Careful.
• Surprisingly Interchangeable [English vs. American Monotype equipment]
• Delineating a Few Differences.
• What Others Are Saying & Doing. [leters]
• Linotype Matrices Made by Italian Firm. [Simoncini]
• French Group Being Organized to Perpetuate Metal Typecasting.
• Death of Two ATF Members Noted. [Dan Driscoll, Owen Stout]
• Pondering Lanston's Shrouded History
• Centerfold: Casting and Showing of Goudy's Lombardic Capitals and 60pt Goudy Text by Rich Hopkins, using ex-Baltotype mats with non-kerning l.c. 'f'.
• Getting All the Lines to Justify. [Harry Wearn on the Comp. Caster]
• Duensings Off to Germany.
• Parrish Estimates 7,000 Ludlows Still in Use.
• How Harry Wearn Helped at Sycamore. [Jim Walczak]
• British Monotype Hot-Metal Operations to Be Separated, Relocated.
• Halbert Proposes to Complete Lanston's Type Specimen Book.
• Viewing Monotype Bembo Alongside Monotype Bembo. [interesting observations on changing taste in set]
• Dave's Fantastic Rust-Killing Remedy. [ Incorrect report of David C. Churchman's famed de-rusting solution]
• An 'Orphan Annie' Nearly 'Did Me In.' [Roger Frith]
• Old Wartime Mementos from a Type Foundry
• Three Unique Opportunities to Acquire Hot-Metal Equipment [subtitle: The Days When Equipment Was Abundant (And Inexpensive) Are Now Over!]
• The Front Cover. [explanation of kerned castings and the use of a "doghouse" mold on the Comp. Caster]

• 'Colonial Confab' Plans Ready for July.
• Don't Come to the ATF Conference Empty Handed!
• Bashed-In Matrices Can Be Repaired
• Saga of Rust Removal Advice Brings Embarassment. [Correction to Dave Churchman recipe given incorrectly in No. 15]
• A Visit to the Cabinet des Poinçons at the Imprimerie Nationale in Paris
• English Operator Reveals Lengthy Monotype 'Love Affair'
• Paul Duensing Reports Typefounding Museum Progress in Germany
• Letters.
• Corrections. [incl. type mortiser, not notcher]
• Tentative Conference Schedule. [Colonial Williamsburg]

• Report on 1992 Williamsburg Conference / Hot Time in Williamsburg.
• California in '94.
• Ad by Richard E. Huss, Bookbinder.
• Typecasters Stage Mini-Summit.
• [Showing of 30 pt Caslon Openface cast on a Thompson from 0.043 drive Thompson matrices copied by the TTM Co. from BB&S, in turn copied from G. Peignot's Le Moreau-le-Jeune.]
• John Dreyfus Defines Our Fellowship
• Inquiry by Frederick Scheider for information on a technical book on linecasters.
• Kelsey Company Bids Farewell. [and account of salvage operation]
• Casting a Fist. [casting a double pica fist from a matrix originally made for a hand mold, adapted in the mid 19th century for a pivotal type caster, and re/un-adapted for use with the Thompson]
• Warren Chappell. Recalling a Long Career in Type Design. ["Recalling Type Design In the Era Before 'Pictures of Printing'"]
• Advice on Operating a Thompson. [porous types, speed, temperature, cooling, and stop motion]
• On Monotype Composition Matrix Drives. [also history of the composition matrix and an illustration of the differences between American and English comp. matrices]
• Christmas Card Nets a Nasty Burn On My Arm / An Ounce of Prevention.
• Bob Ferguson Acquires Several Monotype Casters
• American Type Founders Ceases Operations.
• Duensing to Return to U.S.
• Notes from Fellow Typecasters. Incl.
  • [Source for lemon juice and vinegar rust removal recipe, rediscovered by David C. Churchman]
  • [Spare parts from the Van-Fos type foundry with Kent Kasuboske]

• A Painful Tale to Recount
• July Conference in California a 'Go'
• American Type Founders Company: A Troubled Report On Its Demise [with important photographs
• Odds 'n Ends Tell of ATF's Far-Flung History
• ATF Tools & Implements Preserved
• The Barth Was One Reason for ATF's Quality, But Matrices Also Played a Crucial Role
• Earliest Lanston Patent Books Saved
• On the Hardness of Type Metal (David W. Peat)
• Monumental Type 'Bible' Now Availalbe [McGrew]
• Lead Ain't Dead! [Note from Jim Rimmer]
• Long-Awaited Rehak Book is Published ( Practical Typecasting)
• Unique Monotype Fonts Aquired (John Eickhoff)
• Study Program for Typecasting Aspirants [Hopkins on acquiring materials]
• Lead Poisoning is Statistically Remote
• Our Readers Write!
• Jim Rimmer Uses Lanston Punches to Strike 'Goudy Bible' Matrices (by Jim Rimmer)
• [vintage Dave Peat ad]

• The Conference at Buena Park
• Dates Set for Charlotte Meeting
• The Linecaster Technical Session (John Kristensen)
• "Gone Home" (Obituaries)
• Dating Things Typographic
• English Preservation Efforts
• The First Monotype University (Paul Hayden Duensing)
  • It Was of Mythical Proportions (Lisa Beth Robinson)
  • It Took Me Five Seconds to Decide to Go (C. Christopher Stern)
  • The Epitome of Personalized Instruction (Howard Bratter)
  • A Time of Focused Enthusiasm (Dan Jones)
  • Rich's Postscript
• Matrices, Equipment For Sale
• On Reviving Cincinnati Initials (Howard Bratter)
• What's New from the Typecasters
• Correspondence
• Technical Matters
• Product for Preventing Type Rust
• Treating Metal Burns
• Comments (From Readers) on ATF Liquidation
• A Self-Contained Cooling System (Jim Walczak)
• Cutting Punches for Regulus (Dan Carr)
• The Joy of Taming a Thompson (John A. Hern, Jr.)
• The Pinmark Re-Emerges
• An Extremely Rare Lanston Matrix Case (Photo)
• Ripley's Linotype "Believe It Or Not"
• Mergenthaler Stamp Finally a Reality
• Dispelling Caslon Myths (Rich Hopkins)
  • Specimen Monotype Caslon 37
  • Specimen Monotype Caslon 137
  • Specimen Monotype Caslon 337
  • Specimen Stephenson-Blake Caslon Old Face
  • Specimen American Type Founders Castlon 471
  • Specimen Linotype Caslon Old Face
  • Specimen Ludlow True-Cut Caslon
  • Specimen Monotype Caslon 128
  • Specimen Adobe Caslon
  Caslon Resources and Notes
• The Nitty-Gritty Details of Typographic Production

• Aug. 13-17 Dates Set for the 2014 Conference.
• Was M. F. Benton Truly a Type Designer? (Rick von Holdt).
• Participants Review Thompson Tech VI.
• Rumor Control Regarding the Dale Guild Typefoundry.
• Thompson Casting Using English Square Mats (Bob Magill).
• Short Notes about Our Typecasting Acquaintances.
• Mike Anderson: Its Tough Saying Goodbye (Rich Hopkins).
• Book Advertisement: Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype. [note by DMM: You need this book!]
• Mixing U.S. & English Equipment.
• Hot Type As Seen In '76 (Paty Taylor).
• Craw Clarendon Book Compared.
• Octavian Font Revived.
• A Little Background on New Clarendon.
• Clarendon Cousins (Specimen Showing).
• Printing and Casting Tricks of the Tade.
• Photo of Monotype University 8 Participants.
• A Student's Report on Mono University 8 (Joshua Steward).
• Carl Nudi, Long-Time Hot Metal Man, Learns Monotype (Carl Nudi).
• He Loved Exposure to the Welliver Interface (Rob LoMascolo).
• Linecasting: Is There A Chill in the Air?
• Nasty Burns & Other Stupid Tricks.
• Milling Linotype Mats for Thompson Casting (Sky Shipley).
• Downsizing, Selling Big List of Mats, Resolutions.
• Mike Anderson's Greatest Typographic Achievement.
• Reproduction: Fragment of the World Judgment.

• 2014 Conference a Great Success
• A Visitor Checks Us Out (Walter Colby)
• Our Host, Frank Romano
• Casting Cooper Black as Composition (Mark Sarigianis)
• A Common Thread Is Discovered (Mark Knudsen)
• Things that are Better about Intertype (Don Black)
• Response to Question: Benton Himself Claims Design Credit (Patricia Cost)
• A Solution when Large Type Letters 'Cave In'
• Risking Life & Limb for 120-Point Type (Greg Walters)
• Carl Schlesinger, Famed Linotyper, Dies at 88
• Desire for 'Best Image' for a New Digital Font (Richard Kegler)
• Specimen: Cloister Initials (Greg Walters)
• Specimen: Five Initial Fonts & MOrtised Caslon Italic Caps (Greg Walters)
• Casting and Composing White Space
• Goudy's Lost Companion (Richard Mathews)
• Specimen: 14 pt. Companion Old Style & Italic (Richard Mathews)
• Specimen: 36 pt. Companion Old Style & Italic (Richard Mathews)
• Albert Schiller's 'Art of the Machine Age' (Amelia Hugill-Fontanel)
• Specimen: The Antique Shop (Albert Schiller)
• Specimen: Various Thompson Castings (Bob Magill)
• Diverse Fonts Cranked Out On a Thompson
• Why this Showing of Artscript?
• Specimen: 18, 36 & 48 pt Artscript (Rich Hopkins)
• Specimen: 24 & 60 pt. Artscript (Rich Hopkins)
• Two Ways Stereotyping Saved the Day
• The Monotype 'Facilitator': Bill Welliver
• Mixing New Type with Sorts Cast Before 1900 (Jim Meagher)
• Photo of Jim Meagher Form
• Adding a Counting Device to the Thompson (Sky Shipley)
• Moving a 60-Point Barth Typecaster (David MacMillan)
• A Familar Latin Quote from Type Specimen Books (Steve Watts)
• A Composing Room Like You Never Ever Saw
• Ask John Thompson: Flash on the Side of Letters (Sky Shipley)
• Mystery English Matrix Holder(s)? (Jim Walczak)
• Short Tidbits and Editorial Notes
• In Operation 100 Years (M&H Type)
• Quite a Supercaster Haul from South Africa (Jason Dewinetz)
• Typographic History from Two Perspectives (Rich Hopkins)
• The Business of Typefoundry Amsterdam [review] (David MacMillan & Patrick Goossens)
• On Receiving a Da Vinci Printing Press
• Thompson Tech Graduates Four New Experts
• Chasing the Identity of a Printer's Cut
• Pondering Find of Old Plates

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