Filmsetting

There is too, at this point in time, an aesthetic disadvantage to filmsetting in that the range of type faces specially designed for it is still extremely limited.

However, filmsettings are sometimes made deliberately over size, with the intention that they shall be photographically reduced - some of the machines cannot cope with type sizes smaller than about eight or ten point.

But on the filmsetting machine, the matrix case, which on the hot-metal caster had contained metal matrices, now contained tiny photographic negatives of each character.

In filmsetting it is almost impossible to define where 'widows' will occur when copy marking or setting at the keyboard.