heavyface | Reflex Letterpress https://reflexletterpress.com Boston-Based Printing & Instruction in the Antique Art of Letterpress Fri, 01 Feb 2019 01:38:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://reflexletterpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-R-Colon-32x32.gif heavyface | Reflex Letterpress https://reflexletterpress.com 32 32 143383451 More Metal Type https://reflexletterpress.com/more-metal-type/ Fri, 01 Feb 2019 01:35:59 +0000 https://reflexletterpress.com/?p=817 I probably have too much metal type in the library now, but this particular chunk of lead was available for a steal, so I decided to jump on it. It’s Goudy Heavyface, a nice black titling font. Incidentally, I’ve always wondered how Goudy pronounced his name, so I looked it up: it’s “Goudy” with the …

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The post More Metal Type first appeared on Reflex Letterpress.]]> I probably have too much metal type in the library now, but this particular chunk of lead was available for a steal, so I decided to jump on it. It’s Goudy Heavyface, a nice black titling font. Incidentally, I’ve always wondered how Goudy pronounced his name, so I looked it up: it’s “Goudy” with the “ou” pronounced as in “out”. The more you know!

Of course, there are plenty of people out there for whom the phrase “too much type” does not actually parse as a valid English sentence.

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