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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
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