Casting Metal Type from Dave Keyes on Vimeo.
Traditional letterpress printing requires physical letters, cast from metal or carved from wood, which get inked and pressed into paper to make a print. In the next two blog posts, we’ll take an introductory look into how these letters get made.
First up, metal type!
https://www.stbrigidpress.net/blog/how-type-is-made-part-1