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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

[introduction]

Until recent years, very little definite information on the subject of type standards—a matter of fundamental importance to the craft—has been accessible to printers. They knew and deplored the absolute want of system that prevailed, and which was fully admitted by the founders themselves; but it was commonly supposed that the evil was so wide-spread and deeply-rooted as to be beyond the reach of remedy. The voluntary attempts at reform which have recently been made, and the measure of success with which they have been attended, have not only demonstrated the possibility of a thorough reform, but have placed it among the probabilities of the future. The subject has been widely discussed, and exact information is now accessible.

This matter has engaged our attention for many years, and we purpose dealing with it in a series of articles. As a necessary preliminary, we publish tables of the various systems in vogue, old and new. We hope our readers will both study and preserve them carefully, as they will be referred to frequently in future articles. We do not know of any publication in which so much information on the subject has been hitherto brought together for comparison.