When the IRA bombed a Birmingham pub in 1973 the Western Mail in Cardiff printed its first headline in 72 point type. It didn't have 72 point in its regular typeface so had to borrow a sans-serif type used on its sister paper, the South Wales Echo. Metal type fonts were expensive, and limited in range. I was the sub-editor who wrote the headline, and I kept part of the lead type used to print the headline, the word "Bombs". I had a sense it was historic. It represents the start of the age of terror, and the end of the use of lead type to print newspapers. I can do far more on my home computer in terms of choosing typefaces than I could in a whole newspaper printing press. The Age of Terror continues.
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