However, by the 1920s the company's British branch was well known for commissioning popular, historically influenced designs that revived some of the best typefaces of the past, with particular attention to the early period of printing from the Renaissance to the late eighteenth-century. The company's first face, issued in 1896 was a rather generic design, now named Modern, influenced by Bodoni and Scotch Roman designs. Monotype's role in design history is not merely due to their supply of printing equipment but due to their commissioning of many of the most important typefaces of the twentieth century. Typefounding Ī sample of various Monotype designs in digital format. Board members of the company included future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Vice-Chairman, and other businessmen connected to publishing. In 1936, the company was floated on the London Stock Exchange and became the Monotype Corporation Ltd. To promote its image, the company ran a magazine, the Monotype Recorder, over most of the twentieth century, and also ran a compositor (typesetter operator) training school in London. Once the matrix is positioned over the mould that forms the body of the type being cast, molten type metal is injected. Each matrix is a rectangle of bronze recessed with the shape of the letter. The subsequent holes determine the position of a frame, or die case, that holds the set of matrices for the face being used. Before fitting the tape to the caster it is turned over so that the first holes read on each line set the width of the variable space. This information is also punched in the paper. A drum on the keyboard indicates to the operator the space required for each line. The keyboard operator types the copy, each key punching holes in a roll of paper tape that will control the separate caster. This arrangement addressed the need to vary the space between words so that all lines were the same length. The typesetting machines were continually improved in the early years of the 20th century, with a typewriter style keyboard for entering the type being introduced in 1906. This was more useful for "quick" printing - such as newspapers. But Linotype slugs were easier to handle if moving a complete section of text around a page. Editing these required replacing an entire line (and if the replacement ran onto another line, the rest of the paragraph). In contrast, the Linotype machine-a direct competitor -formed a complete line of type in one bar. This was particularly useful for "quality" printing - such as books. Thus spelling mistakes could be corrected by adding or removing individual letters. The Monotype machine worked by casting letters from "hot metal" (molten metal) as pieces of type. The company was of sufficient size to justify the construction of its own Salfords railway station. In 1899 a new factory was built in Salfords near Redhill in Surrey where it has been located for over a century.
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In a search for funding, the company set up a branch in London around 1897 under the name Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd, generally known as the Monotype Corporation. The licenses for the Lanston type library have been acquired by P22, a digital type foundry based in Buffalo, New York.
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In 1896 Lanston patented the first hot metal typesetting machine and Monotype issued Modern Condensed, its first typeface.
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Lanston had a patented mechanical method of punching out metal types from cold strips of metal which were set (hence typesetting) into a matrix for the printing press. The Lanston Monotype Machine Company was founded by Tolbert Lanston in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1887. The company is owned by HGGC, a private equity firm. It also owns MyFonts, used by many independent font design studios. Via acquisitions including Linotype GmbH, International Typeface Corporation, Bitstream, FontShop, URW and Hoefler & Co., the company has gained the rights to major font families including Helvetica, ITC Franklin Gothic, Optima, ITC Avant Garde, Palatino, FF DIN and Gotham. Monotype developed many of the most widely used typeface designs, including Times New Roman, Gill Sans, Arial, Bembo and Albertus. Monotype was involved in the design and production of many typefaces in the 20th century. Incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, the company has been responsible for many developments in printing technology-in particular the Monotype machine, which was a fully mechanical hotmetal typesetter, that produced texts automatically, all single type. Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American) company that specializes in digital typesetting and typeface design for use with consumer electronics devices.