Overview
Identify tools/equipment and facilities for hand composition. Explain the simple principles of hand composition. Define terminologies of hand composition. Describe techniques of hand composition Differentiate between structures and parts of types. Mention some types of alloys. Enumerate some characters and categories of typefaces
What you'll learn
- Safety in the composing room.
- Principles and rudimentary processes of foundry metal hand composing.
- Brief history of types.
- Layout of metal composing.
- Introduction to tools, equipment, and foundry facilities.
- Terminologies in composing.
- Structures of types of characters.
- Parts of type of characters.
- Typefaces from Gothic to modern types and their characters and categories.
- Typography and job cases.