The process is messy, requires some manual labor and takes meticulous detail and attention to complete perfectly. But the old-fashioned and intricate ways of the letterpress are gaining popularity in ...

Sporting a tidy pink sweater and pouring tea from a china pot, Macon York does not look like someone who owns a guillotine. It's not what you think, she explains. The guillotine isn't for chopping ...

The tiny town of Dorrigo on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales is home to Australia's last letterpress newspaper: the Don Dorrigo Gazette. The letterpress process was invented in the 15th century ...

If you’re a typenerd like myself, you enjoy things such as serifs, kerning, ligatures, logotype, mean line, metrics, multiple master font, orphan line, outline font, just to name a few. I went to ...

In a world where the term "changing the font" conjures the drag and click of a computer mouse, a visit to the San Francisco Center for the Book provides a whole new appreciation for those newspaper ...

In a world of fast-paced connectivity, digital books, and face-to-face interactions using electronics, Alex Green finds solace when poring over a letterpress, meticulously placing each individual ...

Did you know that John Dunlap, famed for printing the Declaration of Independence, apprenticed here in Lancaster? Or that the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the Constitution, was printed ...