Phototypesetting (Lumitype)
Fotocomposición (Lumitype)
- Date
- 1944-1954 · confidence medium
- Place
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Credited to
- René Higonnet and Louis Moyroud
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Text composition by photographing matrices onto film, with no cast metal. It was the intermediate step between hot-metal composition and digital publishing.
Higonnet and Moyroud patented the principle in 1944; the first book printed with it was in 1954 in the United States.
What it led to
- books and newspapers without lead
- high-quality offset printing
- computer-aided composition