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a Schiedam [Netherlands] brush factory with brush-making facilities

That was over 100 years ago

Did he get paid twice as much

This is the story of that typeface

a quarterly journal

Révolution Typographique depuis Stéphane Mallarmé notgoingtotypographics a Schiedam [Netherlands] brush factoryThe strange poem that appeared in May 1897 in Londons Cosmopolis magazine, Stphane Mallarms A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, can be considered, historically, as the first cannonball that awakened the spirit of the modern book. The surprise of his contemporaries was matched only by their consternation, both of which were understandable. Mallarm, in fact, had gone too far. Imagine ten magazine pages in which the words of the poem, instead