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Printing Films Episode 2.01 Monotype: Type Faces in the Making
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Printing Films Episode 2.01 Monotype: Type Faces in the Making

Episode Premiere
February 8, 2026
Official Site
https://printingfilms.com
Episode Premiere
February 8, 2026
Genre
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Period
2026 -
Production Co
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Distributor
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Official Site
https://printingfilms.com

If you ever wondered how a typeface went from a designer’s drawing to a finished, cast piece of type from the Monotype; this is the film for you. Starting with an original drawing, this film goes through the painstaking and multi-step process of creating a single typeface in a single style in a single size for the Monotype composition caster.

It shows the entire process of type design and creation at Monotype including tracing using custom-made projectors, making a technical drawing (showcasing the drawing office with many women workers), making a pattern plate using a pantograph, creating a brass pattern, using a pantograph to engrave a punch, punching the brass to make matrices for the full matrix case, and finally casting the letters in type metal using a composition caster.

Ca. 1955