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Joseph Pinel

Frenchman Joseph Pinel called himself a typographical engineer, but was at the time employed as a type draughtsman at the Linotype Works in Altrincham. In 1899 he supervised French 10pt No2, a typical French didone typeface, as well as other typefaces. It appears that this and some other typefaces that he supervised, were, except for use on the Linotype, also meant for manufacturing matrices for the Dyotype, a composing machine invented by Pinel. The Dyotype was a complicated machine and consisted, like the Monotype, of two separate contraptions, a keyboard which produced a perforated paper ribbon and a casting machine which produced justified lines of movable type. Unlike the Monotype which has a square matrix carrier, the Dyotype had the matrices on two drums, hence the name of the machine. The Pinel Diotype company was founded in Paris and a machine was built with the help of the printing press manufacturer Jules Derriey. A lack of sufficient capital prevented the commercializing of this composing machine.

Pinel's French 10pt No. 2 was digitally revived by Coen Hofmann in 2014 at URW++ as Pinel Pro.

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