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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A trademark used for a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that activates a unit that casts and sets individual characters.
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“BOOK: I am a book composed of 569 pages printed on paper, translated by Reg Keeland, published by the Quercus imprint of MacLehose Press in Monotype Sabon in 2009 -”
“School Oblique, from Monotype, is designed to be easy to imitate; Report is a geometric sans with a large x-height and an open design; Desard, from Typodermic is another which would encourage the development of handwriting; then there’s Simpliciter Sans, Ruly, Folder, Primer Print, ABCSchrift Zwei, Eins and Drei, and hundreds of others!”
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“Beginning Tuesday, Monotype Imaging, a Massachusetts company that owns one of the largest collections of typefaces in the world, is making 2,000 of its fonts available to web designers.”
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“In the 1970s he was type director at the Lanston Monotype Corportion during its brief incarnation in Vancouver.”
“Part 2 of the tour focuses on the Monotype foundry:”
“He was type director at Lanston Monotype during the 1970s when it was based in Vancouver.”
“Our young designers are amazed at what WE did, but their faces are a picture when I describe the Monotype keyboard, caster and subsequent composition running parallel for a while to photosetting.”
“By referring to the original metal versions of Sabon for Linotype casting, Monotype machines and hand-setting, as well as Garamond's 16th century pages, Porchez has created a typeface of great utility and beauty.”
“Monotype - made by painting on a plexiglass (or other) surface with oil or water-based inks and printing the image onto dampened paper.”
“Eventually print-outs from the database were used as copy for hot-metal Monotype composition.”
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