Keep pressing: Indian Head bookmaker uses 20th century machines for handmade books Upon entering a workshop, there are multiple old typecasting machines, ranging from 1915 to 1960, that seem too old to work.

how to make a #book -

Keep #pressing: Indian Head #bookmaker uses 20th century machines for handmade books
www.somdnews.com/independent/...

#printing #typesetting #bookmaking #handmade

Doug Wilson @onpaperwings@typo.social I don't feel enough of you have appreciated that the Linotype could be powered BY A MOTORCYCLE if in dire straights. Did you know that the Linotype was invented before the widespread adoption of electricity and was originally made to run on the common belt-driven systems in large factories? But that's not all it could run on... [historic photo of a motorbike attached to a linotype machine. The caption reads “Motorcycle Running Linotypes on Mansfield (Ohio) News”]

👀 oh shit

typo.social/@onpaperwing...

#Linotype #Typesetting #Printing

... #typesetting the #lostart

RE: https://ohai.social/@marquisdegeek/116220985895854451

Check out the letterhead design! #BBC, rebranded ready for the 1990s … and still typeset the old-fashioned way (laser or photo, none of this newfangled desktop publishing). #CorporateIdentity #branding #design #typesetting #typography #UK

Crazy person tries to build a functional typewriter with Lego. Winds up reinventing Linotype instead! #typography #typesetting #Lego
youtu.be/ZIWTSkCVxjk?...

People in the #typography and #typesetting worlds: have you ever used ITC Founder's Caslon for book work?

Garamond, Futura, Buddhism.

#font #typeface #typesetting #typography #graphicdesign #spirituality #buddhism #buddha

Adobe InDesignを使って、Pixivに上げた #月姫 の二次創作小説を簡単に本にしてみた。
表紙、本文、奥付だけ作ってA4用紙に印刷。これだけでも大分それっぽいね！
いつかコミケでちゃんとした同人小説頒布したいよ、絵師さんとタッグ組みたいよぉ(´・ω・｀)
#SS #同人小説 #小説組版 #Tsukihime #typesetting #novel

The Academic Typesetting Dilemma

The Academic Typesetting Dilemma

#Latex #Academia #Math #Typesetting #Equations

sciencehumor.io/math-memes/the-academic-...

To save you all time, let me say that Harvard referencing and APA7 are *not the same*. #typesetting #academicwoes

A macro photograph focusing on a single printed page of poetry resting on a dark oak table. The camera angle is low, showing the tactile texture of the cream-colored paper. The black ink of the letters is sharp and raised, while the "white space" of the page seamlessly transitions into a translucent, ghostly overlay of a misty Cumbrian valley at twilight. Atmospheric, moody lighting with deep shadows.

Formatting poetry is an art form in itself. Line breaks dictate the breath.
Here is a screenshot of the layout process. Ensuring the white space speaks as loudly as the ink.
*Cumbria In Verse – Lakes To Fells In Poetry* - perfection in progress.

#Typesetting #IndiePub #Booksky

Making end pages is always fun

#bookbinding #typesetting #bookbinder

Sorts in a type case - Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham, London

#sort #type #typesetting #typeCase #alphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp #BNWmacro #classicMono

A major debate emerged: LaTeX vs. Typst. Users lauded Typst for its impressive compilation speed and cleaner, more intuitive syntax, making document creation potentially faster and more enjoyable for many. A strong contender for modern typesetting. #Typesetting 3/6

WORDS IN THEIR HANDS
A Series of Photographs by Walter Nurnberg
With a Commentary by Beatrice Warde
For friends at Christmas
Cambridge
Privately Printed at the University Printing House
1964

#book #typography #typesetting #cambridge #university #BeatriceWarde

i JUST finished sewing the block after like a month of typesetting and three days of printing every page individually for highest quality and then examining every one for errors what do you MEAN i missed a whole sentence I CHECKED LIKE FIVE TIMES. WHY NOW. 💀😭

#bookbinding #typesetting

Getting Creative With “The Measure” | CSS-Tricks A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout...

#Development #Approaches
Getting creative with “the measure” · “The measure can change how you design.” ilo.im/168wq5 by Andy Clarke

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#Layout #Typesetting #Typography #Readability #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

Kenneth Hiebert's 1992 TOC (Table of Contents) always kills my students. It requires patience and attention. It certainly wasn't made with such an automatic function back then, but the challenge is to try to recreate it using that very Adobe InDesign function. #InDesign #typesetting #kennethhiebert

Reference books for book designers Two expert book designers share their list of go-to reference books — ones they consider indispensable for book design and typesetting.

Got a book designer on your gift list? Here's a list of reference books that make great gifts for book designers. You're welcome! #bookdesign #typesetting #graphicdesign
www.bookdesignmadesimple.com/reference-bo...

Composing room, Madagascar

The Mischievous Typesetter

Check out the latest Metal Type news, including details about this year's free gift for site users, recent forum postings, and eBay selections: metaltype.co.uk/s/jjfwd
#letterpress #typesetting #printing

Hier die Herausforderung: Affinity unterstützt keine rechts-nach-links Schreibweise. Was ich von Scrivener zu Affinity kopierte, wurde dabei abgeändert: die Buchstabenreihenfolge wurde umgedreht. Ärgerlich. Offenbar hat Affinity diese Beschränkung von jeher.

#layoutsoftware #design #typesetting

Typesetting and cover layout for Korean Temple Cooking, a co-edition published by Hardie Grant North America.
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#booklayout #pagelayout #typesetting #typesetter #coverlayout #cookbook

Image of an airline voucher with "Conditions of use" in small geometric sans type, spaced far too tightly for the size.

Whitespace is free, USE it

(this text was quite small)
#typography #typesetting

I would like the secret masters of #typesetting to tell me how deleting a letter moves the word to the next line.

image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-4.html: ‘Walter Tandy Murch (1907-ì1967) was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended the Ontario College of Art in the mid-1920s, studying under Arthur Lismer, a member of the Group of Seven, a group of Impressionist/Post Impressionist painters mostly active from 1910 to 1940. Murch moved to New York City in 1927 and studied at the Art Students League of New York In 1941 Betty Parsons held Murch's first one-man exhibition at the Wakefield Gallery, New York City. Murch's style remains difficult to classify, although he has been variously described as a Magic Realist, Surrealist, Romantic Realist or just plain Realist.’

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1949
‘The Modern Art of Printing’
#Illustration by Walter Murch (1907-1967)
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1949
#FortuneCover #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #WalterMurch #printing #typesetting #publishing

Overview: Typst 0.14 is making waves as a modern, user-friendly alternative to LaTeX. The Hacker News community is buzzing with positive feedback, highlighting its ease of use, impressive speed, and sleek design. A true contender in typesetting! #Typesetting 1/5

I'm in the library and I've not checked out several recent publications because the #typesetting is atrocious

Some text is so small it looks like the advice that comes with medication. The margins are non-existent

The paragraphs look like they're straight out of a word doc

New type designer account incoming: my friend Vera Evstafieva, type designer extraordinaire of Cyrillic and western fonts. Top work 👍

@infonta.bsky.social

#type #cyrillic #typesetting #typedesign #font

Original post on mastodon.nl

This is interesting—a maturing replacement to LaTeX! It's called Typst.

I've been using LaTeX for all kinds of word processing since I left the academic world behind—I'm writing the manual for my Gnome for seniors in it, at the moment. Might be interesting to switch to Typst, to try it out. ( […]

Hacker News debated Typst as a potential LaTeX replacement. Users praised Typst's speed, ease, & modern programming-like approach. Challenges include widespread adoption, especially in academia, where LaTeX still dominates for complex documents. #Typesetting 1/5