nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqaz06pe0rpdm5nmrw4s4cpn0lfqh6e2tluteq5h5d59dnx0thcz9q228kyx Yeah, I found it funny that their main point of the exercise was that it’s past time...
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... This mention of the size of drawers of metal type reminds me that their weight is also a bit scary. A full drawer of type weighs about 35–70 pounds (16–32 kg). A piece of furniture with 20 full drawers is almost immovable.
I vaguely remember the first time I tried to pick up a type drawer, at RIT’s Cary Collection—I had no idea how heavy it was. IIRC, I might have initially simply failed to lift it, because I was unprepared for the weight.
I once estimated that a CD-ROM could hold the scalable-fonts equivalent of 100 tons of metal type. (Depending on how many sizes you take to be equivalent to a scalable font, etc.)
I vaguely remember the first time I tried to pick up a type drawer, at RIT’s Cary Collection—I had no idea how heavy it was. IIRC, I might have initially simply failed to lift it, because I was unprepared for the weight.
I once estimated that a CD-ROM could hold the scalable-fonts equivalent of 100 tons of metal type. (Depending on how many sizes you take to be equivalent to a scalable font, etc.)