Typometry (printing)
Typometry was a short-lived relief printing technique developed during the 18th and 19th centuries to compose cartography, maps, drawings and other designs, using moveable type to reproduce words, lineworks and map symbols. History Renaissance precursors During the European Renaissance, many engravers and printers revolved to typography to solve the problem of small lettering on maps, which was very difficult to reproduce solely by using custom engraved lettering. One of the techniques they relied on was the setting of metal type, which was fitted inside a special form, surrounded by spacing material. Words set that way could then be overprinted over woodcut-printed maps as a separate plate, either in black or coloured ink. This technique has been considered a precursor of the typometric technique of the 18th century. 18th-century inventors In the 18th century, the German deacon August Gottlieb Preuschen (1734–1803), from Karlsruhe, published two books on the art of pri ...
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