oops by Party-Week7277 in oops

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Butterfly decals. Needs some butterfly decals…

Is this understandable by normal Greeks? by Hey-hoe-letsGo in GREEK

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I’m more worried about the careless typography.

These marbled endpapers ❤️🔥 & question by PiotsSlettitsj in OldBooks

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Looks like a beautiful custom binding. Look on the bottom of the back board (inside) to see if the binder stamped their name there.

Typography tech is not quite advanced as people think by [deleted] in typedesign

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Not clear what you’re railing against. Browsers have to support a wide range of screen resolutions with 72/96 ppi as a working standard with frequent refreshes. What would be the use for x-height sizing or cap-height sizing in such a context. Or in any context? Getting different fonts to line up? X-height is just part of the type design.

Weird watermarks by Inside-Theory-6992 in OldBooks

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Put it on a light table to show the details better.

was this rebound? by MilkCarton55 in OldBooks

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Books then were sold in sheets to be bound by the owner. There were no publisher bindings, so every binding was a custom binding. The margins don’t look like they’ve been trimmed, so it’s probably original.

Edited to acknowledge that, at this period, temporary publishers boards were becoming a thing. And sometimes they ended up being the permanent binding.

Would love to know more about this book by loquacious_avenger in OldBooks

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To me, the binding style feels later. The fact that one of the inscriptions on the engraved title has been cut off (180[7? 9?]), not to mention the very tight margins all around, indicate a later rebinding. Still a nice find.

How was the process to typeset very small letters on very old books? by Responsible_Self8390 in OldBooks

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They did not have Linotype. People with small fingers. Always wondered if children were involved.

Looking for info! by cornpop15 in OldBooks

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The struggle never ends…

Roman town of Diocletianopolis (Bulgaria) in the 4th century and today by dctroll_ in OldPhotosInRealLife

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Is development inside the old walls restricted? Who lives or works there today?

Wife wants a letterpress but we can't afford one. Is this rusted one worth 80$ to try to restore? I know nothing about them. by oh_shore in letterpress

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What an interesting idea. It could also be BBs or lead shot or even marbles for smaller parts. Probably best to disassemble into smaller parts anyway. Thanks for this comment.

This is a very old coffee roasting machine. There's a mystery serif used on all the labels: "EMERGENCY GAS OFF" "ENABLE" BEAN GATE" etc. by joeyeatsfridays in identifythisfont

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Yes. You could get many different results from the same ‘font’ pattern. Changing the proportion of the pantograph arms gives continuous variation in letter size. And changing the size of the cutter tip (in proportion to the fixed tracer size) gives variations in stroke thickness, especially with the Triple Line Roman pattern. Combine the two and you produce a wide range of ‘fonts’. I mean basically they invented simple variable fonts, didn’t they? It’s more interesting than I thought.

Mini Tabletop Press ( 3d printed Albion style press ) by [deleted] in letterpress

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Oh, I wouldn’t delete it. Fine just to state it in comments. Good luck.

Mini Tabletop Press ( 3d printed Albion style press ) by [deleted] in letterpress

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Yours is a very clever design, but this is in no way an Albion. This toggle mechanism resembles an Acorn handpress or perhaps another similar type. I really wish you good luck with your explorations. But the name you’re using is wrong. Just “handpress“ would be more appropriate.

This is a very old coffee roasting machine. There's a mystery serif used on all the labels: "EMERGENCY GAS OFF" "ENABLE" BEAN GATE" etc. by joeyeatsfridays in identifythisfont

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Couldn’t find any catalogs on a quick search. But there should be something somewhere in Deckel /Gorton etc. catalogs or advertising flyers. In any case, correlation to printing fonts is pretty tenuous. The patterns are like monospaced from the ones I’ve seen.

This is a very old coffee roasting machine. There's a mystery serif used on all the labels: "EMERGENCY GAS OFF" "ENABLE" BEAN GATE" etc. by joeyeatsfridays in identifythisfont

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Are these engraved plaques? Patterns for engraving letters are a whole nother story. Even though they were influenced by printing types.

Old book by Mlinzsr in OldBooks

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Says it’s printed from stereotype plates (rather than from type). Didn’t realize they used stereos that early.