Technical Development of Typeface
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
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content: Mergenthaler Linotype Company Records
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content: Mergenthaler Linotype Company Records / Series 3: Typeface Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0666, Subseries 3.3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of correspondence, internal memoranda, notes, keyboard and font position and layout charts, product literature, tracings and drawings for various fonts. There is documentation for the Teletypesetter Corporation of Chicago about a teletypesetter and perferator keyboard layout for Sweden and product literature for teletypesetter faces. Several files document the Variable Input Phototypesetter (VIP), a photomechanical typesetter which Merganthaler introduced in 1970. The Xerox correspondence includes agreements and royalty information  with Mergenthaler for the development and delivery of fonts.