Printing types, their history, forms, and use; a study in survivals (1922)
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941 · Cambridge : Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 54
is fromthese trays and their position that the characters are de-scribed as upper-case and lower-case letters, a term which Caslon appears to have been the first letter-founder to employ this quotation. A FONT AND ITS CASE 21 is merely descriptive of the relation of the cases to each otherand to… … 4. A Pair of Printers Cases boxes on the right hand are occupied by commercial signs,dashes, braces, diphthongs, the ampersand, and the lower-case ffl. The left-hand side of the upper case contains smallcapitals, arranged like the capitals on the right-hand side,and the other boxes are filled with…
Typography · Printing -- History · Printing
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