Printing Type Specimens: Standard and Modern TypesGraphic arts Company, 1924 - 160 pages |
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18 Point 24 Point 36 Point 5A 48 inches 48 Point 4A 60 inches 60 Point 3A advertising American Type Founders Art Line beautiful blank Bodoni body borders Brass rules capitals carried in stock Caslon Cast on Art catalogue Characters in Complete Cheltenham Clearface Cloister color composition compositor Condensed cover DECORATIVE MATERIAL electrotyped engraving ff fi fl fl ffi ffl Font A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Gothic Goudy inches $2.50 Characters K L M N O P Q R S mark modern mold Mortised Nicholas Jenson Old Style Old Style figures pamphlet plate Point 12 Point Point 14 Point 22 Point 5A 8a Point 9 Point Characters printers printing rollers roman type sheet SMALL CAPS specimens STU V W X Y Z Type Founders Company TYPOGRAPHIC w x y z ff words حال
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Page 148 - ... on paper or other material. 2. An engraved plate, or an impression made from an engraved plate. 3. An engraved inscription. 4. The act of taking an impression from an engraved plate.
Page 148 - A list of those errors in a book which are of sufficient importance to be called to the attention of the reader.
Page 154 - ... electron emission from the electrode. phugoid oscillation (aer). A long-period oscillation characteristic of the disturbed longitudinal motion of an aircraft. pi (print). Type mixed and in confusion. A squabble is a condition in which a page or paragraph has been twisted out of shape. pica (print). A size of type equal to 12point. It is the standard of measurement for leads, rules, furniture, and also for width and length. Six picas equal, approximately, a linear inch. pick (text). A strand of...
Page 154 - The face of the card may be divided by a vertical line; the left half to be used for a message, etc., but that to the right for the address only.
Page 129 - He .nade his mark take out close up invert bring to mark transpose let stand query to author make paragraph indent em-quad wrong font letter lower case letter small capital capitals put in italic put in roman period apostrophe quotation marks hyphen Space even spacing push down space broken letter THE above marks arc the ones most generally used in proofreading.
Page 10 - An em of any type is the squarr body of that type. As it is Impracticable to count all the bits of metal in a page, the em Is made a unit of superficial measure.
Page 156 - I stands for one, V five, X ten, L fifty, С one hundred, D five hundred, M one thousand*; these seven letters, differently placed or marked, were made to express all numbers.
Page 159 - The faintly marked figure, letter, or design in the fabric, usually not noticeable except when the sheet is held up to the light. The watermark in a sheet of paper is formed while in a state of pulp, when a raised design or pattern made of thin wire worked into the required shape is fastened upon the surface of the wire which forms the mold.
Page 10 - A line too long or too short does not 'justify'. KEEP IN. To crowd a word into a line by thin spacing. 'Keep out' a word by wide spacing. KERN. That part of the face which, on a few letters, projects beyond the body. The end or beak of the lowercase f and j and many italic letters have kerns, and are known as kerned letters. Kerns are also made on the descending letters of some forms of bastard faces. KILL. To expunge, strike out, or remove. The editor orders, 'Kill Smith's ad,' or 'Kill that wedding,'...
Page 154 - The fixtures, machinery, tools, apparatus, etc., necessary to carry on any trade or mechanical operation or process.