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The foregoing account is conformed to the designations made use of by American type founders, but
is substantially correct for England. Agate, however, is called ruby, in England, where, also, a size
intermediate between nonpareil and minion is employed, called emerald.
Point system of type bodies (Type Founding), a system adopted by the type founders of the United
States by which the various sizes of type have been so modified and changed that each size bears an
exact proportional relation to every other size. The system is a modification of a French system, and
is based on the pica body. This pica body is divided into twelfths, which are termed "points," and every
type body consist of a given number of these points. Many of the type founders indicate the new sizes
of type by the number of points, and the old names are gradually being done away with. By the point
system type founders cast type of a uniform size and height, whereas formerly fonts of pica or other
type made by different founders would often vary slightly so that they could not be used together. There
are no type in actual use corresponding to the smaller theoretical sizes of the point system. In some
cases, as in that of ruby, the term used designates a different size from that heretofore so called.
| 1 American 9 Bourgeois &bar &bar 1½ German &bar 2 Saxon 10 Long Primer &bar &bar 2½ Norse &bar
3 Brilliant 11 Small Pica &bar &bar 3½ Ruby 12 Pica &bar &bar 4 Excelsior &bar 4½ Diamond 14 English
&bar &bar 5 Pearl 16 Columbian &bar &bar 5½ Agate &bar 6 Nonpareil 18 Great Primer &bar &bar
7 Minion &bar 8 Brevier 20 Paragon &bar &bar Diagram of the "points" by which sizes of Type are
graduated in the "Point System". |
Type founder, one who casts or manufacture type. — Type foundry, Type foundery, a place for
the manufacture of type. — Type metal, an alloy used in making type, stereotype plates, etc., and in
backing up electrotype plates. It consists essentially of lead and antimony, often with a little tin, nickel,
or copper. — Type wheel, a wheel having raised letters or characters on its periphery, and used in
typewriters, printing telegraphs, etc. — Unity of type (Biol.), that fundamental agreement in structure
which is seen in organic beings of the same class, and is quite independent of their habits of life. Darwin.
Type
(Type) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Typed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Typing.]
1. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. [R.] White
2. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. [R.]
Let us type them now in our own lives. Tennyson.
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