Veloso's Portugese Single Case

c
d

k
l

( )

ffl

ffi

—

…

’

« »

1½p

2½p

;

3p spacing

quads

This Portugese typecase configuration is Mauricio Veloso's modified Portugese case of 1858, as in actual use in the Imprensa Nacional de Lisboa in 1908, and shown in Libânio da Silva, Manual do Tipógrafo 2nd ed. 1962.The case is also referrred to in José Ribeiro, A Imprensa Nacional de Lisboa, 1912. Compared with the earlier Portugese Single of the time, Veloso has removed the small capitals, thus making a smaller, easier to handle, case. There is a very similar Portugese Single still in use in USA, which includes the Æ Œ ligatures, and less superiors but more accents. There is a somewhat similar Spanish Caja Normal of 1894 which has one less box.
Veloso's case is 88x62cm (modern versions of the case in the 1960s and 1970s have shrunk to a width of 70cm, according to Pedro Amado of the University of Aveiro). The case has 129 boxes, but Veloso also sub-divides the c d and k l boxes diagonally, possibly with a piece of lead, card, etc. The a to t are superiors. Note that the boxes for U and J are in alphabetic sequence, but K and W are not (similar to the Spanish Single of 1894). The spacing (espaços) boxes are 1 to 3 point (pontos), en (meios quadratins), em (quadratins), and quads (quadrados). (The other Portugese Single case has 4pt and not 2½pt spacing and also has Ñ, ñ and À Â, Ä etc.).

The empty configuration is Portugese Single.

Other empty cases ie with the boxes left blank		Other type layouts ie with characters assigned to boxes
Full Index of layouts	Glossary of terms used	Sources of the layouts	Introduction
Quantities in a fount of type		Quantities in a case of type
Notes about Job and Double Cases	Notes about Upper cases	Notes about Lower cases	Alembic home page

This page was written in 2020 by David Bolton and last updated 14 March 2020.