“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“I see myself, then, as one of the people involved in the thinking up and making of the typefaces. I see a large, sort of beefy man with a red face, sitting at a piece of furniture like a drafting table, carefully cutting out these characters. He had fingers like sausages; people in town were always amused that he was so big and worked with such small pieces. He made them out of wood, I think, and they served as molds or models that ended up cast in metal. He rubbed a substance on the wood grain to protect it. But using these models gave the alphabets some kind of standardization.⁵

5. “My friend wanted nothing but plain, simple letters — nothing fancy,” Sue told Jane and me as we discussed her material. She drew some of the typefaces either designed or approved by that large, male, “earlier” creation of her whole self. In all cases the letters were of the cleanest simplicity, both for esthetic reasons and ease in carving and casting.