... this way. They are very far from being glyphs that the punchcutter will literally trace on the pantograph. They are not glyphs, in ... glyphs. And they are obviously intended as such. Now the punchcutter or pantographist or even the designer himself must somehow ...

Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 12:49pm - 145 comments - 0 attachments

... the faces of the years immediately after LB Benton’s punchcutter were a bit clumsy, as would be expected of a new technology. ... make reasonable assumptions based on the competency of the punchcutter. The more a specimen looks like a complete letterform, like a well ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 10:58am - 163 comments - 0 attachments

... the idea of it, [Gershom] Soncino claims that the punchcutter had been responsible for all the types that Aldus had printed, and ... He wanted everything perfect. He chose Griffo as the best punchcutter. He had to have the best inks and the best paper, etc. The research ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:25am - 83 comments - 0 attachments

... only because of Linn Boyd Benton ’s pantographic punchcutter. A two-part film showing in great detail how the Linotype ...

Wiki - jlg4104 - 8 Apr 2006 - 8:03pm - 0 comments

... choice, yes, though a more elegant revival of the same punchcutter’s work is DTL VandenKeere; you might also want to look at ...

Forum topic - C Swann - 16 Mar 2006 - 10:01am - 10 comments - 0 attachments

... drawings with the optically sized metal type cut by his punchcutter, A. Rosenberger. The small sizes dramatically increase the weight ... pros Actually, although most designers did trust their punchcutter, Van Krimpen was not one of them: he looked down on them all the ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 10 Feb 2006 - 11:51am - 36 comments - 1 attachment

... says this is hand cut around the punched counter by the punchcutter. When Dan Carr of Ashuelot New Hampsire visted me during the ... of Parmenides”. I believe Dan is the premier punchcutter in North America, if not the world since the closing of the ...

Forum topic - gabrielhl - 19 Dec 2005 - 11:18am - 26 comments - 0 attachments

... an increase in sharpness and detail, and the Benton punchcutter of the 1880s, which allowed type to be made more directly from ... from scratch Before L.B. Benton’s mechanical punchcutter, drawings had to be interpreted by human punchcutters working by ...

Forum topic - vinylcut - 9 Nov 2005 - 3:57pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments

German punchcutter. 1893–1980. August Rosenberger was a punchcutter at the D. Stempel AG typefoundry in Frankfurt. Among other ...

Wiki - dan_reynolds - 17 Oct 2005 - 1:03am - 0 comments

... type manufacture was in the hands of the designer-punchcutter. >Font Bureau's Poynter Old Style offers a range of ... type manufacture was in the hands of the designer-punchcutter. Not really. The drawing rooms came about as a result of the ...

Forum topic - speter - 12 Apr 2005 - 8:38am - 44 comments - 0 attachments