Metal type for world scripts

Author
sfwalker
Published Date
March 27, 2023

We have recently acquired a substantial collection of metal types from St Bride Library, covering over 30 different scripts, and most regions: from Chinese and Japanese, through Cambodian, Tibetan, and Bengali, to Georgian and Syriac, to Egyptian Hieroglyphs and many more: our collections span many of the globe’s typographic writing systems.

Watch this space to find out more about how we plan to use this new material.

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