A visit to M&H Type
I was in San Francisco last week and visited M&H Type. I took a photo of the casting room crew and it is on my flickr site at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53177163@N00/6639299139/in/photostream
With me was Eric Holub who is a former M&H employee who now runs the Hillside Press, a mostly letterpress affair in San Francisco. One of the types being cast last Wednesday was Lombardic Caps and that sort of brought me full circle. My first purchase from M&H was the same type face as a teenager back about 1956. For a while in the 1960s I was buying Monotype composition from M&H for the printing company I worked for, and we were about 2 blocks from their plant. They set the Greyhound bus schedules that we printed offset. I try to set aside time for a visit to M&H every time I’m back in the Bay Area.
Fritz
Hey Fritz,
Next time you’re in the bay area, let me buy you lunch. Those were my 30pt Lombardic alts that Mark was casting… I bought the 30pt Goudy Text in December. I picked them up earlier this week and they’re safely tucked away in my type cases now. :)
Cheers,
Alan Dye