An early 20th-Century French lettering book displayed at an online image sharing site stood out with a hand-lettered version of a classic Victorian font. The lettering – a spur serif top and a split...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Prismatiq JNL was modeled from lettering found in a French alphabet book from the turn of the last century – the type sample appearing online at an image sharing site. All of the imperfections...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Modern digital typography pushes many designers to try and achieve visual perfection with their lettering. In the days of wooden type, the premise was more in creating a font that “sold” the message (possibly,...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
In the days of wood type, suppliers offered words such as ‘and’, ‘at’, ‘for’, ‘each’ and numerous others as stock cuts called “catch words”. This collection of twenty-six were re-drawn using a vintage type...