In chapter 4, Crisp tells about the four different kinds of typesetting revolutions. These typesetting revolutions are as follows: hand, machine, photo, and digital. Hand typesetting is known as wood and metal typesetting. This implies that the letters were created on wood and metal surfaces and then pressed into the medium. Machine typesetting is known as hot typesetting this is talking about the mechanized type processes that came about after the Industrial Revolution. Phototypesetting is known as cold typesetting. They method 'free[d] type from its wood-and-metal shackles'. The last revolution was digital typesetting, also known as room-temperature type. This refers to when the process became less hands-on, and more digitally constructed. This process demanded new type be developed to keep up with the ever-changing demands of the digital typographic world.
In Crisp's chapter 6, she talks about the demands of understanding the different measuring systems that were created for type. She emphasis's that the digital world has worked very hard to decrease the purity of type. The computer has created a medium that does not rely on the old standard font sizes. Now instead of creating a font that is 72 pt or 1 inch, a creator can size text at 45 pt and then distort it to meet a desired look. Crisp also states that, due to the digital age, different type styles are run through a mathematical equation to see what you want on the screen. This has also grossly distorted type faces.
