Out of Sorts

During a field trip to Bradford Industrial Museum, gathering texture photos of the machines there, we stumbled upon a blast from the past in terms of graphic design.


A collection of printing equipment, typesetters and more were on display reminding us of just how much computers have simplified things and allowed us so much more freedom in how we work with type and layout than must have been available before.

Oh and we also found what may have coined the phrase "out of sorts". "When printers speak of metal type they use the word 'sort.' If a printer runs out of some letters and cannot continue his work he is said to be 'out of sorts.'"