There is something about type going around. There was the Letterpress: Forward Thinking event a couple of weeks ago at St Brides, and Simon Garfield's book on fonts, Just My Type looking like being a Christmas hit. I notice too that with 18 days still to go on Kickstarter, Linotype: The Film has already raised $6,356 over its target. 

The documentary, which is due to be finished next year, is a paen to Ottmar Mergenthaler's 1886 machine which revolutionised print and which Fleet Street relied on for 100 years until new digital print technology swept this remarkable invention out of the way. There are now only a few people who have the skills to operate the few machines that survive.

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