{"id":785,"date":"2009-02-27T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T03:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/?page_id=785"},"modified":"2009-03-02T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T15:52:45","slug":"typesetting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/about\/my-interests\/typesetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Typesetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My great-grandfather Rudolph Edward Emil Kunze was a wood engraver in Chicago in the late 1800s. My grandfather&#8217;s brother owned an engraving business in Chicago in the early 1900s. My father worked in that business for years. I grew up to become the fourth generation Kunze working in the graphic arts. It was only natural that I was attracted to letterforms and the fragrance of printer&#8217;s ink.<\/p>\n<p>Before I set type by hand, I hand lettered type and rubberstamped type. I silkscreened. I silkscreened ceramic decals and transferred them to pots I threw and then fired them. I printed woodcuts and linoleum cuts from raised surfaces. \u00a0I engraved in copper. Then I bought my first printing press just after graduate school, and began acquiring foundry type.<\/p>\n<p>While I was hand setting type in my studio, I was exploring new typesetting technologies at work. Photo and digital type quickly overtook metal type. I still have two printing presses and tons of type collecting dust in my studio while I now set type on a computer. I enjoy the letterforms just as much, but I do miss the fragrance of printer&#8217;s ink.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-824\" title=\"typography1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/typography1.jpg\" alt=\"typography1\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/typography1.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/typography1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My great-grandfather Rudolph Edward Emil Kunze was a wood engraver in Chicago in the late 1800s. My grandfather&#8217;s brother owned an engraving business in Chicago in the early 1900s. My father worked in that business for years. I grew up to become the fourth generation Kunze working in the graphic arts. It was only natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/785\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}