page_title: Berthold Type Foundry
section_title: Cold Type
hierarchical_section_title: Berthold Type Foundry / Cold Type
caption_attribution_description: diatype photographic typesetting machine by H. Berthold AG
context_page_description: H. Berthold AG was one of the largest and most successful type foundries in the world for most of the modern typographic era, making the transition from foundry type to cold type successfully and only coming to dissolution in the digital type era.
context_section_description: As a typefounder, Berthold had no background in producing cold type machinery until the introduction of the Diatype in 1958.
  The Diatype was a relatively small desktop-sized headline-setting device (i.e. not intended for continuous justified text), based on a glass disc font master. Character selection was by means of a trigger mounted on the front of the machine (giving rise to the colloquial naming of the machine as the "duck-shooter" (in the UK at least).
  When changing font, it was a notable feature of the machine that it required calibration of letter-spacing by the typing of a nonsense character sequence: "Hillimillihirtzheftpflasterentferner". Measuring
  the width of this 'word' at a specific font size would indicate if the character width and spacing was set correctly.
caption: A Berthold Diatype machine
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