But it is seldom the same letter that runs short. He may believe he is a victim of the typefounders conspiracy –a dastardly conspiracy to force him to keep purchasing more & more type by shortchanging him on certain letters.
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Although his case is still half full of type he can set no more copy. But before he gets much set, he discovers he is out of some letters. So the novice may buy a couple of job fonts, lay them in his case and proceed to set his first book. The usual rule is that a pound of type will set about 4 square inches –a space 4 x 4 inches. Usually small job fonts do not include spaces, quads, small caps, reference marks, fractions, dipthongs, brackets, parens, accented letters, en or em dashes, leaders, or other special characters. The font will have 10 figures 1 and zero and 8 of the other figures and the $. Other letters will also be in proportion to the frequency of their use. In the lower case it will have 50 a, i, n, o, r, s, t 20 b, g, p, W, 67 e (most frequently used letter), but only 8 of q, x and z. But it will have only 5 of the seldom used Q, Xv Z and &. It will also have 30 E's and 10 of B ! W and Y characters. Most typefounders use a standard "fonting scheme" whereby one can easily determine the quantity of each individual letter, varying in accordance with the frequency of its use in ordinary printing.Įach font carries a fonting scheme (in type catalogs) such as for example 25A 50a 10-1 This means that the font consists' of 25 cap A's as well as the same number of I, N, 0, R, S and T letters. A complete proportional assortment of type characters of one size of a typeface is called a font. It is only when he decides to set type for continuous reading–a book, amateur journal or several pages of poetry, that he runs into the common question–that is, how big is a font of type? The average printing newcomer usually starts off with a small hand press a few fonts of fancy type and proceeds to print stationery, business cards, tickets for relatives' friends, church and fraternal organizations.
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