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In the era of typeset printing, about how many individual glyphs were needed to lay out a newspaper’s front page?
a hundred
many hundreds
a thousand
many thousands
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Many thousands.
A newspaper front page contains hundreds to thousands of words; at ~5–6 characters (plus spaces/punctuation) per word that quickly adds up to several thousand individual sorts/glyphs. Even a modest front page typically required on the order of thousands (often 5,000–10,000+) pieces of type.
A newspaper front page contains hundreds to thousands of words; at ~5–6 characters (plus spaces/punctuation) per word that quickly adds up to several thousand individual sorts/glyphs. Even a modest front page typically required on the order of thousands (often 5,000–10,000+) pieces of type.
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