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Around the year 1440, coin maker and goldsmith Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden, also known as Gutenberg (fig. 4), invented the process of casting movable printing letters. It is Gutenberg’s inventive talent we can thank for both the principle of the punch, of typesetting with the necessary accoutrements, and also the process of composing printable pages from individual letters, these pages then reproduced on a hand printing press also of his design.
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Flake, G. (1994). Font Production in past and present. In: Font Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78505-4_4
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