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The Type Case: A Language's Statistics as Furniture

The Type Case: A Language's Statistics as Furniture

Exhibition

The Type Case: A Language's Statistics as Furniture

Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine24 June 2026 — 24 June 2027Музей книги і друкарства України

Compartments of different sizes: the commoner the letter, the larger the box. The lay of the case is a language's measured frequency, set in wood.

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Setting Speed as the Limit of Book Production

How many books appeared in a year was decided not by the press but by the compositor's hand.

The Spaces Lie in the Middle, Under the Hand

The commonest element of a page is not a letter.

The Lay Was Reconstructed from the Wear of the Boxes

The bottoms of the commonest boxes are rubbed through to pale wood.

A Cyrillic Fount with a Double Supply of «о»

The commonest letter had its own extra box.

The Type Case: A Language's Frequency as Furniture

The commoner the letter, the larger its box. The lay is measured statistics.

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