Leadfellas

This episode covers a variety of print related topics including - part one of the Ottmar Mergenthaler story, 12 print facts to muse while in isolation, stories of a young compositor part two, could it be that Comic Sans isn't really a bad font, proofreading in the 1970's and when doves cry - a tale of loss and redemption. Hope you enjoy our offering.

In this episode we get to hear the tales of a young compositor in the 1970's South Australia, the contribution made to type faces by Steve Jobs, "Mummy" paper and finally a tale of an underground printing press in Australia - Hard Cash! Hope you enjoy this episode. Team at Leadfellas.

In this episode of Leadfellas, we look at the printers in the first "mile high" club, check out the history of the cheque, discover what a "bastard" title is and finish up on the interesting but little known tale of the Titanic's printers. Enjoy the episode.

In this episode we look at typo's - of the atomic kind. Why is the Gutenberg bible such a technical masterpiece from a printing perspective? To round the episode out, we look at "Industry in turmoil" - why a good printing business can go bad so quickly. Hope you enjoy this - Leadfella team.

In this episode we discuss the state of the industry today in a postscript world. Discover a font that was as hated as Comic Sans is today but from the 70's. Have an introduction to the fine art of "greeking" text and round it out with a secret underground printing press run by Joe Stalin. A mixed bag, enjoy!

This episode we discuss - the font Futura. We look at what Gutenberg and Christmas carols have in common. Finally we look at Australian printing slang - "Wrong Fonts" and see what that means.

This time we look at linotype machines, apprenticeship tales as well as feeling "out of sorts" - enjoy

Hear more about the Gutenberg story, when to use ie vs eg, history of photocomposition, HTML vs Hotmetal and more!

First full episode drop of the Leadfella podcast. In this episode we will be covering - Early printing in Australia, the Gutenberg story (part 1), handset to linotype and Baskerville - the font and the man!

First episode of the Leadfellas podcast. Three broken down typesetters wanting to keep the history of printing/typesetting alive as well as giving their own spin on fonts, layout and design as well as printing history/lore.