A highly skilled historic tradesperson who engraved the master letterforms onto the ends of steel bars. These finished punches were then driven into softer copper to create the matrices, which in turn served as the molds for casting lead type. The precision of the cutter directly determined the clarity and beauty of the resulting printed text.
Heard on the job
The master typecutter spent three days refining the counter of the lowercase g.
Also heard as
- punchcutter