[HN Gopher] Manuka - a antipodean aesthetic on 19th century Germ...
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       Manuka - a antipodean aesthetic on 19th century German root-stock
        
       Author : firloop
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2021-06-13 19:31 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | timClicks wrote:
       | Does anyone know how wood was able to be carved with sufficient
       | precision to enable it to be used as a medium for type? At such
       | small scales, surely it splintered and fractured all the time?
        
         | jack_jennings wrote:
         | As the previous poster mentioned, wood would only be used for
         | particularly large poster type, but (if I recall correctly)
         | even at large scale the printing press does wear out the wood
         | blocks more quickly than metal type; the good designs that you
         | see in wood would anticipate that distortion without
         | compromising legibility.
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         | Wood type was also often very trendy, insofar that new designs
         | that were bigger and bolder were developed and produced quickly
         | -- the aesthetic lifespan may not have been longer than the
         | physical one.
        
           | timClicks wrote:
           | Understood, thanks. Interesting point about wooden type being
           | easier to produce - that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for
           | taking the time to answer the question.
        
         | Igelau wrote:
         | My understanding is that it's actually the opposite of what
         | you're thinking. Small scale wasn't an issue because wood type
         | was used for large letters. This is because large scale was an
         | issue for metal type, which could cool unevenly and warp at
         | larger sizes.
        
           | timClicks wrote:
           | Ah right, this makes perfect sense. Thank you for taking the
           | time to answer the question.
        
       | teruakohatu wrote:
       | As a kiwi reading this, at the start I thought it was about a new
       | hybrid manuka tree developed off German root stock ...nope it was
       | just tree metaphors about a new font.
        
         | crb wrote:
         | https://klim.co.nz/about/:
         | 
         | > Our foundational ethos is "a thing well made".
         | 
         | I see what you did there.
        
         | ZephyrBlu wrote:
         | Me too. I'm very disappointed :/.
        
           | tpaulin wrote:
           | Me three.
        
             | mirekrusin wrote:
             | 3 out of 7.9 billion is not bad!
        
       | mdoms wrote:
       | There's an image[1] of text with bush in the background that
       | appears to have no manuka whatsoever in it. You don't have to
       | travel far in NZ to find thousands and thousands of manuka trees.
       | I'm not convinced the author even knows what manuka is.
       | 
       | [1] https://klim.imgix.net/original_images/Manuka-Campaign-
       | Slab-...
        
       | 1970-01-01 wrote:
       | The site is about fonts and text, not trees and roots.
        
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