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Article: Letter: Plan for a Museum of Type
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 3, 1994
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CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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IN THE next two months Britain has its last chance to establish
the Type Museum, a unique working museum in London devoted to
printing with moveable type. The Merrion Monotype Trust, with the
National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Science Museum, has rescued
an irreplaceable wealth of letter patterns and precision machines.
These - some eight million artefacts - represent Monotype, the
hot-metal process patented in 1897 that perfected the art of
automatic typesetting and produced typefaces for virtually every
known alphabet and script. Printers worldwide came to Monotype for
their supplies. The elegance of Monotype type design and technology
made possible the unsurpassed quality of 20th- ...
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