Fleischmann on Punchcutting bramdedoes So these were special sorts

So these were special sorts

Holmes-Miller’s memoir of a life in advocacy and her journey to answer the question "Where are the Black designers

Seventeen of those alphabets are reproduced in this later book by Max Körner

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This book is a powerful look at history-making uses of lettering

Fleischmann on Punchcutting bramdedoes So these were special sortsThis 1994 publication is a significant piece of typographic detective work. It centers on a 1766 manuscript discovered by scholar Frans A. Janssen, which provides a rare first person technical account of the art of punchcutting. Janssen concludes the text was written by the legendary German born punchcutter Johann Michael Fleischman. The content is notable for its vigorous defense of counter punches and its sharp, professional sniping at Fleischmans