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Now, we love paper products nostalgically supporting independent letterpress, screen printing and book arts shops nationwide... Many social stationery fonts, such as London Script and Bank Gothic, have origins in letterpress printing. Amazingly, there are over three hundred more lettering styles from another source, social stationery engraving. Most of these have never been digitized and are still found in the Cronite Masterplate library. This article explains Masterplate technology and a little about how the Cronite library came to be... Cronite lettering styles for social stationery engraving are created with a Masterplate. This is a large metal template, similar to plastic templates formerly used for technical and architectural lettering.