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‘Duplexed’ comes from Linotype machines that used a pair of fonts, normally roman and italic, on a set of matrices. For mechanical reasons the two versions of e
by kps 6y ago
‘Duplexed’ comes from Linotype machines that used a pair of fonts, normally roman and italic, on a set of matrices. For mechanical reasons the two versions of each character had to be the same width.
- arthur2e5 6y agoI just wrote a Wikipedia page for uniwidth typeface. Thanks for mentioning this origin! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniwidth_typeface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniwidth_typeface