Meaning of run upon sorts | Babel Free

Definitions

To use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index.

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Examples

“The writer remembers once printing a large index of map titles, which ran upon sorts so peculiarly that a two hundred-pound font of body letter had to be provided with two hundred pounds of sorts before the job was completed.”

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