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.
The print shop is packed, from the line of hand-cranked printers churning out personalized notebooks to the area where helpers lock type into metal frames. Outside, people peek through the windows to ...