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Examples of founts of wooden type.
Some of the letters in the WINE VAT example have been cut away (by the printer, not the manufacturer) to allow kerning. The example has been chosen to show how these cut-outs mesh together as between the V and A and between the A and T. This style with its exaggerated serifs has been associated with so-called Wanted Posters. One of its names is Clarendon and this example is of 30-line size (5 inches).
The Typo's Great! example is sized at 10-line but note that the lower-case descenders are 12-line. The compositor must cut (or find) strips of 2-pica reglet to fill in the space below the non-descending characters. Founts of wood type with lower-case are less common.
Many of our wood type founts are available for use in the Access Studio. Artists, writers and other interested persons can enrol in the Studio program and print anything from a simple sheet of poetry to a complete book.
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