The practice of typography; a treatise on the processes of type-making, the point system, the names, sizes, styles and prices of plain printing types (1899)
De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : The Century co. · leaf 155
agreed upon by the United StatesType Founders Association for the purpose ofsecuring uniformity under the new system seemto be practically satisfactory. A graduated mea-suring rod of steel, 35 centimetres or 83 picas inlength, is made a common measure for all bodiesof type. It does not appear,… … A gauge for typo-hodic; This gauge or smaller mi;i<urcconsists of throe bars of steelaccurately fitted and firmly coii-ueeted as is sliowii in the illus-tration. The space l>et\vcen theshort side liars is exactly 288points, which admits24 l)odies of l)ica, .3(! bodies of Vn-evicr, and…
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