Look at this cool ampersand:
Friday find: Woodcut Poynder ampersand
A very cool ampersand print with an interesting story…
Tag: Wood Type
Lovely posters letterpressed by Typoretum
Letterpress is essentially the very earliest method of printing text, invented by Gutenberg in the 1400s. Print shops like Typoretum are reviving this old fashioned art…
Typoretum is a print shop located in the small town of Coggeshall in Essex, England. They specialise in the old fashioned art of letterpress printing.
Letterpress is essentially the very earliest method of printing text, invented by Gutenberg in the 1400s. A print is created by inking reversed movable metal or wood type and then pressing it onto paper using a wonderfully complex machine.
Part of the novelty of letterpress prints are their tactile nature – the “bite” of the raised letters leaves a slightly embossed impression, and due to the manual work involved no two prints are exactly alike. These qualities have caused a recent resurgence in the popularity of this archaic printing technique.
Take a look at these nice letterpress posters for sale from Typoretum, and the snapshots of the process behind them:
Wood Type Revival
An ambitious project to convert ten of the world’s rarest and most unique historic wood typefaces into digital fonts.
Matt Griffin and Matt Braun of Bearded have started the ambitious project of converting ten of the world’s rarest and most unique historic wood typefaces into digital Opentype fonts. The project has successfully been funded through the Kickstarter platform. They have released a sample of their intended result as a free font called Fatboy, available in the “Husky” weight.
Follow their progress on woodtyperevival.com or Twitter.