不親切な用語解説--「sort」
sort、普通は『種類、タイプ』などを意味する語だが、これにも印刷用語としての意味があるのを知った。
typeに似ているかも。
- 【印刷】 ソート 《ある型の活字のひとそろいの中のひとつ》
- 《印》一そろいの活字の中のある1字
- 【印】活字
- Originally an individual piece of metal type. In digital type, where letters have no physical existence until printed, sort has become almost synonymous with character.
- a single piece of type, also a type not part of the alphabet, usu sold as an extra, eg fractions.
Melbourne Museum of Printing - Glossary of Printing and Typography
- In typesetting by hand compositing, a sort is a piece of metal type representing a particular letter or symbol, cast from a matrix mould and assembled with other sorts bearing additional letters into lines of type to make up a forme from which a page is printed.
