W L Bentley - Type Casting

Hot Metal!: As part of the development of the Petrarch Press, I learned to cast metal type and strip material, and to engrave brass matrices for casting newly designed characters. None of this could have been done without the generous help of Rich Hopkins” Monotype U and friends in the American Typecasting Fellowship The Press now has a functioning type casting shop capable of making new type and spacing materials for its upcoming projects.

Thompson type caster, Elrod, Deckel pantograph engraver, remelter, photopolymer and laser-cut patterns, Fontographer, Glyphs.

Check out the type casting posts on the Petrarch Press website.