“Font” as a misnomer for “typeface” is a modern usage that arrived with the digital era. Perhaps the wider appreciation of a choice of typefaces, once people became tech-savvy, led to this more sophisticated-sounding term coming into use. In printing terms, a font means a whole set of one size of metal type, and is sometimes referred to as a fount. [Read more]

Printing History 33 ran the article “Subversive Letterpress: The Art of Zephyrus Image” by Alastair Johnston. That brief overview, based on his bibliography, showed only four images. Shortly after publication, I saw some framed Zephyrus Image prints owned by Daniel Gardiner Morris of The Arm Letterpress, who shared the digital files below and for which Mr. Johnston supplied captions. —Editor  [Read more]