In 19th-century typesetting by hand, the race went to the “Swifts.” That was their nickname: journeymen printers of America’s press who were marvels at what is now virtually a lost art. Letter by ...

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type ...

IF YOU imagine there’s nothing less exciting than watching paint dry, imagine the hordes who poured into middle-brow entertainment centres called dime museums in the 1880s to watch compositors set ...