“Here’s The Smallest Reproducible Font of Caps In The World!”

Whoa, this is impressive. Legendary. We’ve heard tell of such a matrix from some retired local line casters, but to see it up close and personal is quite impressive. A cap alphabet in the space of a 6pt em space (roughly). This mat was created and distributed as a promotional piece used to demonstrate the level of quality that Linotype’s “typographic laboratory of the world” was capable of.

We recently ran it through our machine and cast a couple slugs. Sure enough, as advertised, it casts and prints.

Thanks to our neighbors at Lowell who gifted us this piece of Linotype history.