"Monotype" and "Monotypes" redirect here. For the type foundry, see Monotype Imaging. For other uses, see Monotype (disambiguation).
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Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass. The image is then transferred onto a paper by pressing the two together, using a printing-press, brayer, baren or by techniques such as rubbing with the back of a wooden spoon or the fingers which allow pressure to be controlled selectively. Monotypes can also be created by inking an entire surface and then, using brushes or rags, removing ink to create a subtractive image, e.g. creating lights from a field of opaque colour. The inks used may be oil or water-based. With oil-based inks, the paper may be dry, in which case the image has more contrast, or the paper may be damp, in which case the image has a 10 percent greater range of tones.
Monotyping produces a unique print, or monotype; most of the ink is removed during the initial pressing. Although subsequent reprintings are sometimes possible, they differ greatly from the first print and are generally considered inferior.
These prints from the original plate are called "ghost prints." A print made by pressing a new print onto another surface, effectively making the print into a plate, is called a "cognate". Stencils, watercolor, solvents, brushes, and other tools are often used to embellish a monotype print. Monotypes can be spontaneously executed and with no previous sketch.
the image has a 10 percent greater range of tones. Monotyping produces a unique print, or monotype; most of the ink is removed during the initial pressing...
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not...
Monotype Grotesque is a family of sans-serif typefaces released by the Monotype Corporation for its hot metal typesetting system. It belongs to the grotesque...
Monotype fonts were developed by the Monotype company. This name has been used by three firms. Two of them had their roots in "hot metal" or lead type...
The Monotype system is a system for printing by hot-metal typesetting from a keyboard. The two most significant differences from the competing Linotype...
template. Monotyping, in contrast, involves the use of an impermanent image that degrades after just one print. For example, one form of monotype transfers...
Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American)...
A popular lookalike design has been Monotype Corsiva, by Patricia Saunders at the Monotype Corporation. Monotype at the time created or licensed many...
communities are educated on the uniqueness of their flora and fauna. A monotypic habitat-type is a concept sometimes used in conservation biology, in which...
substrates and related processes are discussed below. Except in the case of monotyping, all printmaking processes have the capacity to produce identical multiples...
November 2022. "Monotype Garamond". Fonts.com. Monotype. Retrieved 4 July 2015. Matteson, Steve. "Type Q&A: Steve Matteson from Monotype". Monotype. Retrieved...
Monotype (and other hot-metal machines) in 1908, this design was remade by Monotype for its equipment. As near as I can tell, it looks like Monotype Series...
[citation needed] In a monotypic species, all populations exhibit the same genetic and phenotypical characteristics. Monotypic species can occur in several...
artistic adviser to the British branch of the printing equipment company Monotype, in collaboration with Victor Lardent, a lettering artist in The Times's...
typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders, for Monotype Typography. Each of its characters has the same width as that character...
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collaboration of Mirza Ahmad Jamil TI (as calligrapher) and Monotype Imaging (formerly Monotype Corp.), suffered from two problems in the 1990s: a) its non-availability...
Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929 and most commonly used for body text. It is a member of...
ancient Egyptian god Temu, a Chagga clan name in Tanzania Temu (plant), a monotypic genus of plants in family Myrtaceae Temu, an alternative name for the...
Least chub, Iotichthys phlegethontis (a monotypic genus) Leatherside chub, Snyderichthys copei (a monotypic genus) Oregon chub, genus Oregonichthys Ponto-Caspian...
in Boston), and started selling fonts in March 2000. In November 2011, Monotype Imaging announced plans to acquire MyFonts and the other font-related parts...
Angelus (Monotype, 1954, a 4 1/2 point type typeface for Bible composition at Cambridge University Press), Castellar (an open caps face, Monotype, 1954?...
typeface was originally developed by Monotype. Segoe was designed by Steve Matteson during his employment at Agfa Monotype. Licensed to Microsoft for use as...
'cat-voiced'. Australasian catbirds are the genera Ailuroedus and the monotypic Scenopooetes. They belong to the bowerbird family (Ptilonorhynchidae)...
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