Typography Tuesday
We have mentioned before that there were 4 major hot metal typesetting machines that became predominant in the 20th century, foremost among them were Monotype and Linotype, but there was also the Ludlow Typograph and Intertype.
Founded in New York in 1911, the Intertype Corporation marketed a typesetting machine modelled on the Linotype that had been commercially available since 1884. It was leaner and more efficient than the Linotype machine, and Intertype matrices were marketed as being able to run in machines made by other manufacturers. Unlike Linotype and Monotype, Intertype was not known for innovative type designs, with most being derivative Bauer typefaces.
Today we display ornamental border designs from the 1932 Intertype display book The Book of Intertype Faces published in Brooklyn. Since this was published just before the installment of the Nazi government in Germany, the swastika border did not have the same connotation it has for us today. The last image are borders of Intertype matrices!
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