sentences:  Austin's original matrices came into the possession of Stephenson Blake, and are now in the Type Museum collection in London.The innovative book and newspaper publisher John Bell, impressed by the sophistication and contrast found in contemporary French typefaces cut for Firmin Didot, commissioned Austin to produce a new typeface to be sold by his British Letter Foundry.Austin was a former cutter of engraved letters who would develop a career as a punchcutter.