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 259
he highest degree. To avoid what was regarded as the uncouthdivision of the display lines of titles, or the al-Condcnsed tinuative of a selection of capitals tooletters ouco small for proper display, printers hadinfasiiion ^q rcsort to condcnscd capitals, whichseem to have first been shown in… … Condensed two-lino letters. forms of the rudely cut two-line fat-faces thenin fashion. Every publisher wanted condensedletters in his titles, and they were furnished onmany bodies from one-line nonpareil to ten-linepica. Some were l)nt mod(;rately condensed, in Ineffectiveness of Pinched Types 257…
Printing · Typography
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