Compose Yourself: An exploration of historic and contemporary daredevil typesetting

Typesetting for letterpress printing presents multiple challenges: aligning each letter, ensuring ideal word and letter spacing, kerning if necessary, then locking it all up… even defying gravity in a chase. Daredevil typesetting becomes even more challenging as type is formed in circles, curves, waves, and complex illustrations such as landscapes or buildings.

Jessica will give us a look at the tools and techniques typesetters have employed to achieve amazing and inspiring feats of composition, followed by some P, Q & As.