CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company ...

Fifty years ago last week, in the Park Row composing room of the New York Tribune, a bearded young German machinist named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a ...

Around for a century, Linotype machines were made obsolete in the 1970s by changing technologies -- but they have not been forgotten To embark on Linotype was to embark on greatness. Linotype machines ...

As part of a new tech segment, we're occasionally going to be looking at a concept, invention or tool that's altered the way the world works. To start things off, we asked Doug Wilson, director of ...

Growing up, George Mergenthaler lived a charmed life. He was a good-looking Princeton graduate who was the only child of an affluent family in Rye worth millions. His grandfather was the inventor of ...

“We probably use Helvetica every day and I dedicated the book to the person who was responsible for taking a Swiss typeface and making it a household word.” —Frank Romano, author Frank Romano got the ...