A FEW YEARS ago Russell Maret, a New York artist, found himself puzzling over a question. In the 1920s and 1930s some preindustrial fonts were revived by Stanley Morison, a great British typographer.
In a city renowned for its digital revolution, a centuries-old craft is being revived. The letterpress, a printing method that predates the digital age by over 500 years, is finding new admirers among ...