A Technical Contribution to the Description of Typefaces in Sixteenth-Century Polish Printing Houses

Abstract

This communication presents a technical overview of the digitization and reconstruction of typeface repertoires from sixteenth-century Polish printing houses, based on the series Polonia typographica saeculi sedecimi. It summarizes the main stages of creating an inventory of typoglyphs, generating metadata, and releasing the material in an open CC BY 4.0 repository. The project illustrates how accessible digital tools facilitate the development and dissemination of paleotypographical resources outside institutional frameworks.