The World of Wood Type
Borders, ornaments, manicules and fonts, fonts, fonts!
The last few years have seen an explosion of useful wood type websites and resources appear. Here are a few I have found particularly helpful.
I have broken it down into three area:
Resources -
useful resources I have come across
Links -
links to many of the wonderful wood tyoe websites around these days
Downloads -
a few useful PDFs that you can either view online, or download
Links
Resources - PDFs & Media
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Wood Type Museums
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The world's best wood type and printing museum, based in Two Rivers, WI
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An online collection of RRK's wood type. Beautifully proofed and catalogued, this is an invaluable resource.
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Current Wood type Manufacturers
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I love reading Scott's blog, as he notes his progress creating new type, catchwords and printers ornaments.
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Using the original pattern letters from AWT, plus new designs.
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June 2013 IPM NewsletterJune 2013 newsletter from the International printing Museum in Los Angeles
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December 2013 IPM Newsletter #2a newletter from the Los Angeles IPM
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Nineteenth Century Typefounders of NYC1980 article by Stephen Saxe about the many typefoundries of early New York City
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Firestation Centre for the Book proposalA proposal to establish a Centre for the Book in Melbourne. Unfortunately, it never proceeded.