[image description: photos of proofs of handset type for letterpress printing, displaying all the le

[image description: photos of proofs of handset type for letterpress printing, displaying all the letters in the font Civilite, and the range of sizes available. Also photos of two cases of the font, which are divided into compartments for each letter and figure. Civilite is a script font based on semi-formal French cursive of the 1500s, and has several alternate characters, especially lowercase letters with curling starts or extra long tails for beginning and ending words. In the cases, some compartments have extra cardboard dividers inside to separate variants on the same letter. End description.]

I should’ve jumped the Civilite cases up the cleaning queue a while ago. They weren’t very messy except for the part where they’d never been divided for alternate characters. I love setting with it, but it wasn’t very friendly to anybody else’s use.

All done now, and the extra 14 & 30 from a different casting checked for baselines & married in! perfectly usable cases. hmmmmm Legend next i think, but im pretty sure those ones are already basically good to go.