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Can you have too much good typography?

Poster for lecture on digitizing metal typefaces

One of Ray’s favorite pieces, this poster announces a lecture by Justin Howes, then curator of the Type Museum in London. The talk was about his work digitizing the typeface Caslon from original book printings.

As a bit of extra story, Ray was sitting in his living room popping off wooden squares with a screwdriver and Jill walked by and said, “Isn’t it supposed to be backwards?” Ray had done the letter right-reading. Fortunately he had cut two boards while he was at it, and immediately started over.

Size: 18” x 24”

Edition: 50 copies

Production notes: Using a tablesaw, a piece of 3/4” plywood was cut 1/4” deep to produce the 1,728 3/8” squares. Working from a computer printout and a screwdriver, the appropriate ones were removed.

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