Matrix font identification?
While gathering various printing supplies in preparation for pickup, I found a plastic pail nearly full of Linotype matrices - I believe there may be about 3 or 4 (or more) magazines’ worth of mats in this bucket.
I was wondering if there was any site out there that listed the various “triangle” numbers that were used to identify Linotype fonts (I am not sure if anyone would be interested in trying to sort a bucket full of pi’d mats for use, else I’d offer it? Although at least one font looked almost brand new)
You can compare numbers at Don Black’s site:
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or download Useful Matrix Information from Lance Williams’ site:
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For some reason the links do not appear here but the rest of it was enough to put me on the lead to my answer. Thanks!
I posted the links with standard brackets <>, but I guess BriarPress software again does things its own way. Other interested parties may try:
http://www.donblack.ca/Linotype/
and
http://downloads.kadetstationery.com/
In the end, I did figure out why many of the mats were in the bucket - a lot of them were damaged in various ways. Most common form of damage was crushed / sheared lugs from the occasional student trying to crowd just one more word or syllable into a line. There were some usable mats and which were eventually offered up here and sent on to another Briar Press user.
Re: matrix font identification
Hello all. I tried both of the websites shown above by parallel_imp but neither one worked. So, can anyone identify this font for me? 14 ^ 132 on Intertype matrices. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Re: matrix font identification
Hello all. I tried both of the websites provided by parallel_imp but neither one worked. So, can anyone identify this font for me? 14^132 on Intertype matrices. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I believe Don Black’s site has retired. I seem to rememebr he moved to Florida.
There doesn’t seem to be a 14 point font 132 in Intertype, but Linotype would be Caslon Old Face w ital & sc. Had it. Stolen.
I was going to mention David MacMillan’s many uploads on his website Circuitous Route, but today I find links broken, or maybe it’s just my old browser failing. But he has put a lot on the Internet Archive as well, and the 1966 version of Linotype’s “Useful Matrix Information” is available there:
https://archive.org/details/MLCUsefulMatrixInformation_610_11_4_5_66_20X
An undated Intertype list is
https://archive.org/details/IntertypeMatrixIdentificationPre1963
Search the Archive for “dmmlemur” and there are 385 items he posted there, as of today.
Many thanks, David.
And I’m sad to report that the Wayback Machine didn’t record a single useful page from Don Black’s website.