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Histoire de la typo

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Origine du doublement de consonnes. The Human Face of Type by Edward Mendelson. I was always interested in typefaces, but I became obsessed with them only when my wife got pregnant.

The Human Face of Type by Edward Mendelson

The psychological mechanism seems to have been something like this: For five centuries, printers’ type was made of lead; the form into which the molten metal was poured and which gave the letter its shape was called a matrix—the Latin word for womb. At a time when something that mattered a great deal to me was taking shape in a real womb, I could not stop thinking about letters and symbols that had taken shape in metaphoric ones. Règles typo.