Craft · 6 pages · 12 min
How a font of metal type is a drawer of sorts
A font is one size and style of metal letters, stored as sorts in a divided case.
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From the opening
In metal type a font is the full assortment of one size and one style, and those pieces, called sorts, live in a divided wooden case that pulls out like a drawer. Each compartment holds many copies of one character, because a page needs more than a single e. The opening covers one size and style in a case, sorts sit in frequency boxes, and upper case and lower case.
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Inside
- One size and style in a case
- Sorts sit in frequency boxes
- Upper case and lower case
- Out of sorts stops the line
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- The type case and its lay
- A metal font as one size of sorts