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Plaque Decoupée Universelle, 1876

Hand drawing on paper with a pen and a stencil.
Image from Indexgrafik.fr

In 1876 Joseph A. David acquired the patent for Plaque Découpée Universelle, a system that he had invented for sign-writers. With a universal stencil, all UPPERCASE, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, accents etc could be sourced from the grid of the stencil. → Palace of Typographic Masonry

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3. Type History
3.2. Plaque Decoupée Universelle