The American Typecasting Fellowship
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The American Typecasting Fellowship Newsletter is published once a year. Order the latest copies below. The Editorial Team can be contacted at newsletter [at] americantypecastingfellowship.org
- Issue No. 48
- Arriving Fall 2026
Issue No. 48
Fall 2026
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Fall 2026
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Table of Contents
- News from the Community
- Recollections from Rich
Rich Hopkins - Casting Continues at the Bixler Letterfoundry
Rob LoMascolo - Non-Benton Pantographs at ATF to 1902
Dr. David M. MacMillan - SALADIN: Fabricating a Proprietary Type with Cast Type Metal Matrices
Lionel Zaccardi - How Fast to Cast?
Sky Shipley - Electrodepositing Matrices at Small Capital Press
Ian Edelson - A Trip to Siberia
Pat Reagh - Escape from the Smithsonian
Val Lucas - Casting the Bradley Modern Initials
Dan Jones - The Metal Type Forum
Dave Hughes - Reproduction of a Lining Gauge
Kazutaka Komiya - Development of a New Latin Metal Typeface: AK Renaissance Pb
Akira Kobayashi - A Tribute to Scott King
Jason Yoh - Scott King and Typecasting
James Lenfesty - In Memoriam: Larry Raid
Doug Wilson - Linotypes on Display in Colorado and Maryland
George Chapman and Val Lucas
- Issue No. 47
- October 2025
Issue No. 47
Fall 2025
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Fall 2025
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Table of Contents
- The Twenty-fourth American Typecasting Fellowship Conference
Sierra Brown - The Hot Type Network
Franz Hennies - Monotype University 12 Reports
Fairuz Elektra and Dan Jones - Thompson Tech IX Reports
Dan Cherry, Chase Hinshaw, and Paul Maravelas - The Pin Wrench in the Gears
Rich Hopkins - Typecasting Lessons Learned
Jim Walczak - Kerning Type — One Approach
Stan Nelson - Commercially Engraved Mats
Nicolas Regamey - In Memoriam — Michael Bixler
Rich Kegler - In Memoriam — Troy H. Groves
Sky Shipley - Six Years of the Printing Stewards
Fritz Swanson - Installing a Solid State Relay Heater Control
David Bolton - Digitizing ATF Newsletter Back Issues and Website Redesign
Brian Lee Clements
- Issue No. 46
- September 2024
Issue No. 46
September 2024
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September 2024
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Table of Contents
- 2025 ATF Conference Update
Rebecca Gilbert - Meet the New Communications Committee
- Monotype University Ten
Val Lucas - Monotype University Eleven
Fritz Swanson - A Census of Barth Casters
Dr. David M. MacMillan - 19th Century Innovations Transform Typefounding
Stan Nelson - Two Masterpieces of Metal Type & Typography
Scott Vile - The Benton Shading Device
Jurie Florijn - Type Alignment with a Digital Microscope
Val Lucas - Cutting New ATF Matrices at the Greenboathouse Press
Jason Dewinetz - The Printer's Embellishers
Arie C. Koelewyn - Typecasting in Germany and Scandinavia in 2024
Franz Hennies - A Tribute to Theo Rehak
Rich Hopkins - Remembering Mel Arndt
Phil Driscoll & Sven Olaf Nelson - Remembering Don Black
Rich Hopkins - Remembering Richard Mathews
Rich Hopkins - What Was Great About Yesterday
Rich Hopkins
Back Issues
The ATF Newsletter has been published occasionally since 1978 by Rich Hopkins at Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry. It collects articles and news about anything and everything related to typecasting. Physical copies of select back issues through Issue No. 45 may be available from Rich Hopkins.
All back issues are available in PDF format on our Back Issues page. Back issues are currently being digitized and will be available online in order of completion. Digitizing efforts currently revolve around Issues No. 15 through No. 20.
Digitized Newsletter Issues available to read now:
No.1,
No.2,
No.3,
No.4,
No.5,
No.6,
No.7,
No.8,
No.9,
No.10,
No.11,
No.12,
No.13,
No.14,
No.18,
No.19,
No.46