It seems as though punchingcutting is a very time consuming craft. One which requires lots of patience, skill, and precision. Not only do you have to spend time carefully creating and cutting a punch and filing a matrix for each letter, but you must have a design thoroughly planned out before executing it. It’s mind boggling to think that so much time was put into creating one single letter. My guess is that when working with punchcutting there isn’t any room for mistakes or error unless you plan on recreating your design from scratch. Punchcutting would most likely get extremely frustrating to me after not much time at all. I feel like we are all so privileged to have the ability to experiment and constantly change things around in our work, that the thought of going into a design without the option of effortlessly being able to go back would scare me! I’m curious to see designs made from punchcutting back then and how they vary, because I wonder if all the hard work that went behind creating a deisgn constrained designers to always play it safe with same, familar, basic designs. I feel like this method would restrict my creativity because I would always play it “more safe than sorry.” But that could just be because this craft is sort of absurd to me, and I’m sure that back then people weren’t so lazy considering this was the norm and also the only way. One reason I wouldn’t mind punchcutting is because throughout the process you sort of have no choice but to be extremely observant of all the detailing in each specific letter, and because of that you are bound to grow a stronger appreciation for letters and fonts. Anyway, I certainly give those who worked and still work with punchcutting a lot of credit.