One of the most important tools for a compositor in a printing office is their composing stick. It helps with assembling and transferring the individual type from the type case to the galley before being locked in a form and printed. In this video, Howard discusses the parts of the composing stick and the different composing sticks we have in our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum. #letterpress #printingpress #printing #sacramento | Sacramento History Museum

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In this episode of Hebrew Voices, Adventures in Hebrew Typesetting, Nehemia Gordon chats with Raphael Freeman, world-class typesetter and Founder of Renana Publishers in Modiin, Israel. Gordon and Freeman discuss the special challenges of Hebrew typesetting from the letterpress era to the digital age. With its consonants, vowels, dagesh, two sets of accent marks, and myriads of combinations, creating fonts for Hebrew is considered by Microsoft to be more complicated than for Chinese. 👉 Related