Comments on: Austrian Type Height https://metaltype.co.uk/wpress/austrian-type-height/ Yesterday’s Technology . . . Today! Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:57:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gregory J. Walters https://metaltype.co.uk/wpress/austrian-type-height/#comment-63 Thu, 31 Aug 2017 04:55:54 +0000 http://metaltype.co.uk/wpress/?page_id=1024#comment-63 In reply to John Cornelisse, Enkidu Press & typefoundryj.

There are two type heights in Italy. The .928″ height is called “French height.” The “Italian height” is much higher, around .977″.

]]> By: John Cornelisse, Enkidu Press & typefoundryj https://metaltype.co.uk/wpress/austrian-type-height/#comment-60 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:03:38 +0000 http://metaltype.co.uk/wpress/?page_id=1024#comment-60 As far as I know, anywhere on the European continent, all moulds I saw, in Geneva, Italiy, Spain, Germany, Poland… all of them were .928″… At the TypeArchyve this is called Didot-height…

In Belgium… the Belgium mould are .932″

In the Netherlands the moulds were .9785″ but at the Dutch State printshop, moulds were .932″ “Staatdrukkerij hoogte”…

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