A FEW YEARS ago Russell Maret, a New York artist, found himself puzzling over a question. In the 1920s and 1930s some preindustrial fonts were revived by Stanley Morison, a great British typographer.
Starting with inventor Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450s, letterpress printing using movable types revolutionised the world, making mass printing effortless and ushering in an era of easily accessible ...