On Designing and Devising Type.

Type designs by the Dutch designer Jan van Krimpen never enjoyed the wide popularity achieved by those of Goudy, Trump, Zapf, or others, but his work has been appreciated by discerning typographers from the start.

Van Krimpen was one of the last type designers to work exclusively with metal type. Others that followed, such as Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger, worked with metal as well as phototype and digital character generation. One wonders what Van Krimpen would have done in the face of such developments, which he probably would have resisted (see A Letter to Philip Hofer on certain problems connected with the mechanical cutting of punches, written in 1955 and published by David R. Godine in 1972).