11.28.2006

Type Tray


I first saw this type tray at Jules’s parents house in Kent.
This tray would have been used by a type setter to house all the various characters of a type family.
The type tray is a grid. Not a 2 dimensional grid that we’re used to seeing on screen or in a magazine but an actual 3 dimensional, tactile grid.
Once seen this way it makes a layout seem far more exciting with far more possibilities.

1 comment:

Martin Bradley said...

think you might find that this is not a type tray, but a case. Hence the term lay of the case, also where the terms upper and lower case come from