Talk:Rotated letter
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This article should mention the fact that in printing with moving types, letters could be inadvertently turned. Historically this must be the most common meaning of the term "turned letter". Henrik Thiil Nielsen (talk) 22:33, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
- True, most famously perhaps is the case of the eighteenth-century Caslon metal fonts where the pound sign (£) was identical to an italic uppercase J, rotated 180 degrees.[1] All you have to do is find a citation that agrees with you. "Common meaning" would be difficult to prove since it hasn't been technically possible since the arrival of 'hot metal' Linotype machines that ended the use of discrete sorts. In modern computer typesetting, it can't really happen inadvertently. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:51, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
References
- ↑ Howes, Justin (2000). "Caslon's punches and matrices". Matrix. 20: 1–7.