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  2. Wood type - Wikipedia

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    Wood type in close-up. In letterpress printing, wood type is movable type made out of wood.First used in China for printing body text, wood type became popular during the nineteenth century for making large display typefaces for printing posters, because it was lighter and cheaper than large sizes of metal type.

  3. Alan Kitching (typographic artist) - Wikipedia

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    Kitching in 2016. Alan Kitching RDI AGI Hon FRCA (born 1940) is a practitioner of letterpress typographic design and printmaking. Kitching exhibits and lectures across the globe, and is known for his expressive use of wood and metal letterforms in commissions and limited-edition prints.

  4. Typography - Wikipedia

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    Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to ... Typographers have moved beyond the static pages of print books, newspapers, posters and other display ...

  5. Reverse-contrast typefaces - Wikipedia

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    French Clarendon designs were often created in wood type, used for large-print letters on posters. They are often associated with "wild-west" printing and seen on circus posters and wanted notices in western movies, although the style was really used in many parts of the world during this period. The style is sometimes called "circus letter".

  6. Print design - Wikipedia

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    Print design, a subset of graphic design, is a form of visual communication used to convey information to an audience through intentional aesthetic design printed on a tangible surface, designed to be printed on paper, as opposed to presented on a digital platform. A design can be considered print design if its final form was created through an ...

  7. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    Besides the traditional letterpress beginnings of a newspaper landscape as well as a broad market for publications, advertisements, and posters of all kinds appeared. The challenges had changed: since printing and typography had been a straightforward craft for centuries, it now had to face the challenges of an industry-ruled mass society.