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 156
tion from the old standard of eleven-twelfths, or.9166 of an inch. One-fifteenth of 35 centimetresis .9186 of an inch. The difference of joVoo oi 500part of an inch may seem very trivial, but it isenough to prevent the use of the different heightsin the same line. Some founders claim to have… … A gauge for height-to-paper. Types can be tested by printerslor heiKlit-to-pai>er by tliis sim-ple instrument of steel, recentlyinvented by Henry Bartli, of theCincinniiti Type Foundry. Theline A C is very sliglitly out ofparallel with the line B D. Atype of proper height will passfreely in the…
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