Letterform Archive on Nostr: Wooden Type Works made rubber stamp patterns for their type designs and used the ...
Wooden Type Works made rubber stamp patterns for their type designs and used the marks made by these “matrices” to then hand carve each individual letter as type. In this case it must have been easier to simply carve a full word for the catalog rather than individual letter blocks. Perhaps because they made the type to order?
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