there ought to be a Gutenberg monument in Detroit

“Surely there ought to be a Gutenberg monument in Detroit—for Henry Ford should long since have had one erected to the father of modern mass-production. Also, the first Ford cars were all black, and here too I see a somewhat fantastic parallel with Gutenberg’s printing, before the lovely bright colors came into use.”

—Hermann Zapf, About Alphabets: Some Marginal Notes on Type Design, 1970.

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