Accent positioners and floating accents, stored in 194 small drawers, manufactured by Monotype Corporation Limited. 48 wooden drawers containing accent positioners, arranged by typeface series number. They are used to correctly position accents on top of or underneath letters on Monotype patterns. Accents such as acute or umlaut can be correctly positioned on top of letters on patterns, and accents such as the cedilla or ogonek can be correctly positioned underneath letters on patterns.

146 small drawers contain floating accents, such as umlauts and cedillas, which can be added in the correct place using the accent positioners in order to sit above or below letters on patterns. There are many accents in each drawer. Each of the floating accents in the drawers have a four-digit ‘s’ number which relate to the numbers that customers would use when ordering special matrices. Other groups of special matrices include ‘Mathematical’, ‘Triangles’ and ‘Aeroplanes’. There is a single metal drawer of cards called ‘accent numbers’ that identify the accents contained in each drawer.