Punchcutting

What is it?

Making the hard metal punches that are used to make matrices for type founding. Molten lead flows into a matrix to produce a single piece of type, ready for typesetting.

Hand-picked Links

 • Aimee Dobois: Making Type by Hand - Punchcutting
 • Imprimerie Nationale: Le Cabinet des Poinçons
 • La Gravure de Poinçons à l'Imprimerie Nationale
 • Typefoundry blog: The materials of typefounding

People in the field of Punchcutting

We know of 80 people who work in this field:

A Jean Alexandre Richard Årlin Antoine Augereau Richard Austin B Johann Christian Bauer Theophile Beaudoire Linn Boyd Benton Archibald Binny Giambattista Bodoni David Bruce, Jr. George Bruce C Jacques Camus Dan Carr Matthew Carter William Caslon William Caslon II D John Day Gahlord Dewald Firmin Didot Henri Didot Christoffel van Dijck Henk Drost F Vincent Figgins Johann Michael Fleischman Pierre Simon Fournier Benjamin Fox Joseph Fry G Nelly Gable Claude Garamond William Grandison Philippe Grandjean Robert Granjon Francesco Griffo Johann Gutenberg François Guyot H Wilhelm Haas the elder Victor Hammer John Handy Sem L. Hartz Pierre Haultin Dard Hunter

J Joseph Jackson Jean Jannon Anton Janson Nicolas Jenson K Alexander Kay Hendrik van den Keere Nicholas (Miklós) Tótfalusi Kis Paul Koch Rudolf Koch L Louis Luce M Charles Malin William Martin Molé-le-Jeune Isaac Moore N R. Stanley Nelson P Christian Paput Louis Perrin Alexander Phemister Charles Plumet Michel Portron Eudald Pradell Edward Prince R Paul H. Rädisch Jesse Ragan Erhard Ratdolt Jacques-François Rosart August Rosenberger S Jacques Sabon Jacques de Sanlecque the elder Peter Schoeffer the Younger Fred Smeijers Conrad Sweynheim U Johann Friedrich Unger V Bartholomeus Voskens Dirck Voskens W Pierre-Louis Wafflard Justus Erich Walbaum Peter Walpergen Alexander Wilson