An Inventory Of Type

An overview of the collection of wooden poster type owned by Leicester Print Workshop – a project and exhibition by LPW Letterpress Apprentice Saria Digregorio

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Typography. The general term for the art of printing moveable (cast-metal) type on paper, vellum, etc. – The Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Type. Printer's type are small pieces of metal, each engraving a letter or other character in a relief on one end. They are made of many sizes, but all must be exactly the same length, so that when they are assembled in lines and pages their faces shall present a uniform plane surface to be printed from – The Printer's Dictionary of Technical Terms

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Text. The body matter of a page or of a book, as distinguished from titles, headings, notes, extracts, references, indexes. The word text is also used to describe the Old English or black letter style of type – The Printer's Dictionary of Technical Terms

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Newsprint. A low-cost, non-archival paper most commonly used to print newspapers, and other publications and advertising material – Wikipedia

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Newsprint. A low-cost, non-archival paper most commonly used to print newspapers, and other publications and advertising material – Wikipedia

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Print. An Impression from a plate, engraving, etc. A book, periodical or other publication which is no longer in stock is said to be "out of print", although it may be obtained on second-hand dealers or others – The Printer's Dictionary of Technical Terms

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Rag. A piece of old cloth, especially one torn from a larger piece, used typically for cleaning things – Oxford Dictionaries

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Magnet. Used instead of quoin for locking up forms.

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Chase. The iron frame in which the type is imposed and locked up for the press – The Printer's Dictionary of Technical Terms

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Key (quoin key). The T-shaped piece of iron used to operate metal quoins in locking forms – The Printer's Dictionary of Technical Terms

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Mid (space). 1/4 of an Em space.

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Measure. The width of the column or page of type – The Printer's Dictionary of Technical Terms

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Line. The line was a small English unit of length, variously reckoned as 1⁄10, 1⁄12, 1⁄16, or 1⁄40 of an inch. It was not included among the units authorized as the British Imperial system in 1824 – Wikipedia 

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Line. The line was a small English unit of length, variously reckoned as 1⁄10, 1⁄12, 1⁄16, or 1⁄40 of an inch. It was not included among the units authorized as the British Imperial system in 1824 – Wikipedia 

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Line. The line was a small English unit of length, variously reckoned as 1⁄10, 1⁄12, 1⁄16, or 1⁄40 of an inch. It was not included among the units authorized as the British Imperial system in 1824 – Wikipedia 

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Pt. In typography, a point is the smallest whole unit of measure, being a subdivision of the larger pica. It is commonly abbreviated as pt – Wikipedia

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Point. The word stems from the Latin punctum. It is a unit of the typographical measurement system—typometry. Before the typographic point was invented, font sizes were differentiated by their names. Say, “cicero” (12 points) was so named because Cicero’s works were first printed in 1467 using this font size.  – The life and extraordinary adventures of a typographical point