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Medium: Designing the letter ‘Æ’

An account on Medium of designing the letter Æ.

 

Header Image By Szomjasrágó at Hungarian Wikipedia (Transferred from hu.wikipedia to Commons.) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

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  • Letterpress Guides
    • Letterpress From Scratch
    • Inspiration
    • Composition
      • Leading and other Spacing Materials
      • Squeeze
      • Locking Up
      • Lockup and Rising Spaces
      • Makeready
      • Further Bits and Pieces
    • Printing
      • Ink
        • Some Modern Inks
        • Metallic Inks
      • Paper
        • Cutting Paper
        • Machine or Grain Direction in Paper
        • Printers’ Paper
      • Setting Roller Height
      • Early Rollers, Composition Rollers and Rubber Rollers
      • The Process of Printing
        • Positioning Paper on the Platen
        • Applying Precision Techniques
        • Small Presses: Getting the Most from the Least
      • Full Colour Letterpress Printing
      • Numbering
    • After Printing
      • Dissing, or Distributing Type
    • Other Arts
      • Gold Ink, Bronzing and Foil Printing
      • Thermography
      • Binding
        • Simple Bookbinding
        • Beginning Bookbinding
    • Disposing or Selling Letterpress Equipment
    • A Small Printing Office
    • Equipment for your Printing Works
    • Edmondson-style Rail Tickets
  • Type and Typography
    • Choosing Typefaces
    • The Point System
    • Type Synopses
      • Type Fount Proportions
    • Type Founders
      • Stephenson, Blake
        • Stephenson, Blake Today
    • Linotype and Intertype Salvage
    • The Monotype System
      • Monotype Keyboard
      • Monotype Composition Caster
      • Monotype Super Caster
      • MacTronic: Monotype Typesetting from Computer
    • The Ludlow Typograph
      • The Ludlow System
      • Principles and Operation of the Ludlow
      • Ludlow Typography
    • Elrod Strip and Rule Caster
    • Woodletter or Poster Types
    • Finding Second-Hand Type
  • Presses
    • Small Presses
      • Adana
        • Adana QH
        • The Adana 5 x 3
        • The Adana 8 x 5
        • Adana T/P48 and Adana P71
      • Ajax
      • Model Press
    • Platen Presses
      • The Arab
        • Taking an Arab Apart
        • Buying and Running an Arab
        • Josiah Wade
      • History of the Jobbing Platen
      • Cropper
      • Heidelberg Printing Machines
        • Heidelberg Platens
      • Lagonda Platen Press
      • Thompson
      • Vicobold Machines: Victoria Platens
      • Haddon and the Introduction of the American Point System
    • Cylinder and Proofing Presses
      • Construction of Cylinder Machines
      • Heidelberg Cylinder Presses
      • Wharfedale
        • The Bremner Machine Company
    • Finding a Press
    • Installing and Caring for Letterpress Machines
    • Maintaining Letterpress Machines
      • Oiling Your Press
  • Industry
    • Efficiency and the Small Printer
    • The Printing Industry in 1965
    • Organisation of a Printing Office
  • Community
    • Letterpress Printers
      • Francis Cupiss Ltd (Cupiss Letterpress)
      • The Letterpress Collective, Bristol
      • Typoretum, Colchester
      • Incline Press, Oldham
      • Hand & Eye Letterpress, London
    • Events
    • Letterpress Courses, Tuition and Workshops
      • Brignell Bookbinder
      • G511ERY, Bradford
      • Mostly Flat, Ludlow
      • Pixel Press, Stoke Newington
      • Print Room at St. Boltoph’s, Colchester
      • The Bodleian Bibliographical Press
      • The Grange, Ellesmere
      • The Paper Trail, Hemel Hempstead
      • The Print Project, Shipley
      • The Smallprint Company, Derby
      • TypeTom, Bognor Regis
      • Richard Lawrence, Oxford
      • West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield
      • London Centre for Book Arts
      • Hot Bed Press, Salford
      • New North Press, London
      • Harrington and Squires, London
      • InkSpotPress, Brighton
      • Inky and the Beast, London
      • Letterpress Courses and Tuition
    • Museums and Libraries
      • Press Here, Coupar Angus
      • Beck Isle Museum, Pickering, North Yorkshire
      • Robert Smail’s, Innerleithen
      • Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
      • Bradford Industrial Museum
      • Upper Allen Street, Sheffield
      • John Jarrold’s Printing Museum
      • Milton Keynes Museum
      • Cambridge Museum of Technology
      • St Bride Library
      • Amberley Museum, West Sussex
      • Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft
    • Groups and Societies
    • Suppliers
    • Letterpress Classifieds
      • Classified Ad Submission
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