In honor of his birthday this month, Typocurious digs again into the Lawson-Provan file of the Dutch type designer Jan van Krimpen (12 January 1892–20 October 1958). Today’s van Krimpen-related post will be a book review by G. Willem Ovink of A letter to Philip Hofer on certain problems connected with the mechanical cutting of punches, which first appeared in the quarterly journal Quaerendo, volume 3, number 3, 1973, pp. 229–242.

Here now is G. Willem Ovink’s review “How to Retain the Qualities of Handwork in Mechanical Production.”

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