One or more glyphs that accidentally appear in a different font
than the surrounding text. See also font
fallbacks. For intentional uses, see mid-word
style change.
Zwiebelfisch (“onion fish”) is a colloquial German
letterpress printer’s term for a sort from a
wrong font. Some sources define Fisch as a sort in the
wrong compartment of the type case, and
Zwiebelfisch as a sort that’s in the correct compartment,
but stems from a different font (style, size, family) [Schröder].
Others make the distinction between any misplaced sort in the type
case (Fisch) and one that ended up in print
(Zwiebelfisch) [source?]. Yet others More…
One or more glyphs that accidentally appear in a different font than the surrounding text. See also font fallbacks. For intentional uses, see mid-word style change.
Zwiebelfisch (“onion fish”) is a colloquial German letterpress printer’s term for a sort from a wrong font. Some sources define Fisch as a sort in the wrong compartment of the type case, and Zwiebelfisch as a sort that’s in the correct compartment, but stems from a different font (style, size, family) [Schröder]. Others make the distinction between any misplaced sort in the type case (Fisch) and one that ended up in print (Zwiebelfisch) [source?]. Yet others define Zwiebelfisch(haufen) as a large amount of jumbled sorts, [Renner 1922, Genzmer 1966] which is known in English as printer’s pi(e).
