5 MARCH 1965, Page 13

Sit,—Much in sympathy as I am with the excellent typo g raphical

sentiments echoed in your issue today, I feel it is only fair that somebody should point out to you that the Modern typeface was, in fact, cut some forty-four years before your own notable journal first saw the light of day.

L. I. C. RANDLE

29 Norfolk Mansions, Prince of Wales Drive, SW11 [But we only said we liked the name 'Modern,' not that we supposed it to be a novelty among type- faces.—Editor, Spectator.]