#metal type

[atompalace-official]

✨🩶 Mighty Metal! 🩶✨ { my trainersona }

[mrkoppa]

3 February 2026 | Der Klubhaus

Miscellaneous type ornaments AKA dingbats purchased on a whim, potentially useful in the design of The Torch (potentially forthcoming title/periodical from The Heavy Duty Press).

[blnxpc]

Type Building

[mewsjournal]

So Rotomblr, need advice. My mom’s a little old fashioned and she told me her one requirement for letting me board at HH is that I don’t bring home a dark type or metal type trainer. She doesn’t like dark type trainers since she believes they’re all ‘Dark emotional teens at heart with no morals or respect.” As for Metal Trainers she has this weird idea that they make no money and are all like loser virgins? She called them ‘nerdy incels with dyed hair’. Idk what to say to her when she says stuff like this?

She also believes in the myth that metal trainers always turn crazy. I tried to explain to her that that’s a myth perpetuated because 1800s metal type trainers used to go insane from working with Mercury since Metal Type trainers were typically involved with alchemy seeing as it had to do with metals.

Not that I think I will but what if I end up dating somebody who’s one of these types? Should I just stay away from them so i don’t upset my mom???

[en8y]

[IMAGE ID: three rectangular flags with eight stripes. most of them are the same size, save for the middle two which are about half the size of the others. the first flag's stripes, from top to bottom, are as follows: dark teal, dull teal, dull blue, off-white, black, dark cool grey, dark green-grey, and green-grey. the second flag's stripes, from top to bottom, are as follows: dark warm green, green-grey, light green-grey, off-white, black, medium brown, light brown, and cream. the third flag's stripes, from top to bottom, are as follows: peach, cream, dull light green, white, black, dull light blue, dull light purple, and off-white. END ID.]

deckdarktypec: a gender connected to, related to, or otherwise influenced by, having a pokemon deck/TCG team that is primarily, or exclusively, dark type.

deckmetaltypec: a gender connected to, related to, or otherwise influenced by, having a pokemon deck/TCG team that is primarily, or exclusively, metal type.

deckcolorletypec: a gender connected to, related to, or otherwise influenced by, having a pokemon deck/TCG team that is primarily, or exclusively, colorless (type).

@radiomogai @liom-archive @obscurian @pokegender @pokemoqai

[mrvelocipede]

I have made a small start on extracting some type from an ancient, filthy, horrible old typecase. This appears to be Bodoni Poster, now that I've gotten it out from under the layers of dust, fossilized mouse droppings, and desiccated spiders.

[otherpeoplespokemon]

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Fine-press printer and type designer Russell Maret recently compiled a series of lectures and essays on type and fine-press printing into his latest publication Visionaries & Fanatics and Other Essays on Type Design, Technology, and the Private Press, designed by Maret, printed by Sheridan Books, and published in 2021 by Cathy Baker’s The Legacy Press in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Maret spends a considerable amount of space comparing and contrasting metal type and digital letterforms (which he calls digigraphic). The implications of these two graphic presentations of letterforms seems to fascinate him, as it should. Maret writes:

Technologically, I began printing and designing type during a period of great, rapid change. Digital technology not only provided a new means for designing type, it offered the first viable alternative for the typographic book in five-hundred years. Digital technology was not only changing the way text was being transmitted, it was changing the artifactual meaning of the book.

Shown above, after the dust cover and title page of the book, are progressive engravings for the ‘ct’ ligature punch in the Hungry Dutch typeface designed by Maret, and examples of Just van Rossum’s and Erik van Blokland’s digigraphic typeface Beowulf (1990) where “Each character has multiple potential outlines from which it can be composed. Every instance of a character is unique, but the characters remain stylistically consistent with their neighbors.”

Finally, we hold one of 250 copies of the hardcover edition that includes Maret’s letterpress-printed specimen sheet of metal and digital typefaces and ornaments of his own design. We display the specimens here along with their maps identifying each design.

View our other posts on the works of Russell Maret.

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