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Fun With Shorts! Learning to Set Type [PATREON EXCLUSIVE!]
Added 2019-06-03 22:56:22 +0000 UTCHey, patrons! Here's this month's exclusive: ten minutes of hot type-setting action! You'll learn all about the slug, and the line, and the nick, and the plum, and the nimbus, and the trollhole, and the idontknowwhat. It's the best time you'll ever have with a completely obsolete skill set.
Comments
This is easily the slowest-moving short you've handled, but it's still fascinating. This is a piece of history, from before Linotype machines, I guess. Maybe smaller print shops couldn't afford what newspapers had. It's amazing tho think how movable type was still a great advance. Printing would still have been expensive, but big print runs would spread the setup labor costs. Wow. Thanks for taking a chance with this one. :)
Bill Lemmond
2019-06-24 17:11:35 +0000 UTCI'm guessing the gloves would have been too thick, back then, not the thin-but-tough-enough plastics we have, now. I'm hoping they enforced hand-washing, a lot.
Bill Lemmond
2019-06-24 17:07:59 +0000 UTC"Locate your case." Head. I'm going to say it's a -head- case. "On long words, you will find it easier..." To fuhgeddaboudit! So um, this kind of type is lead or lead alloy, right? Should he be wearing gloves, or anything, or not....?
arcanetrivia
2019-06-15 04:33:00 +0000 UTCdont drop the period.
Rhys
2019-06-05 14:31:59 +0000 UTC"I would like to take this opportunity to tell all my critics and haters to trip gently over my middle finger."
Shelf Employed
2019-06-05 01:01:08 +0000 UTCI actually learned (slightly) how to do this, thirty years ago. Which is weird, because it was already dying then.
Troy B.
2019-06-04 01:22:15 +0000 UTC
