Sentence examples for punch cutter from inspiring English sources

Both machines were made possible by the development of machine tools, specifically, the mechanical punch cutter.

Colines designed italic, roman, and Greek type fonts, some of which were cut for him by his punch cutter, Garamond.

Philippe Grandjean, the punch cutter responsible for Romain du Roi, probably didn't see it that way, despite — or perhaps because of — the royal warrant.

It is the emphasis on the physicality of type that makes the Grolier show so useful and — in the words of Nelly Gable, a punch cutter working for the Imprimerie Nationale — so lyrical.

He worked out their details with August Rosenberger, a master punch cutter at Stempel whose craft, even less appreciated than his own, was memorialized in a little book, included in this show, that Mr. Zapf wrote and designed in 1996.

In the 1960's he began designing fonts for phototypesetting, the first computer-aided form of typesetting, which sounded the death knell for the punch cutter's trade.

Garamond was one of the first punch cutters to work independently of printers.

His roman fonts, cut from 1531 onward, surpassed the best existing romans in grace and clarity and influenced European punch cutters for 150 years.

(Rotary cutters may require more maintenance than punch cutters).

Typeface designer and punch-cutter Claude Garamond, one of Tory's pupils, achieved refinement and consistency in his Old Style fonts.

With an emphasis on Britain and the United States, his stunning new book is the first full-scale history of the printers, sign-writers, engravers and punch-cutters who — before the early 20th century, when the term "graphic design" was coined — did all the same things that today's designers do, with incomparable skill.