August 5, 2009 – 10:00 am
Welcome to the thirteenth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website.
All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, [...]
The Atelier Press came into being in 1970 as the private press of Stan Nelson. Stan has been interested in printing since the age of nine, and formerly operated as the Nelson Job Shop and later as Norse Custom Printing. After becoming aware of the world of Fine Printing, Stan chose to name his press [...]
Welcome to the twelfth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website.
This week I am looking for the name and designer(s) of the typeface shown below. Please email your answers to me; [...]
Welcome to the eleventh ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I am offering the prize of a pastiche Victorian letterpress poster (including free International p&p), hand-typeset and printed by myself on a mid-nineteenth century Columbian handpress. The prize can be viewed here.
All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one [...]
I’ve just had the pleasant surprise of discovering Woodtyper, an online journal by Nick Sherman that focusses on a subject close to my heart – wooden type! Nick states that he has been inspired to begin this online journal by the late Rob Roy Kelly and continues:
“I never had the pleasure of meeting Mr Kelly [...]
Welcome to the tenth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website.
This week I am looking for the name of the typeface and the typefoundry that first cast the typeface (in metal). [...]
Apologies for the absence of new posts on my blog recently but I have had my shirt sleeves permanently rolled up whilst out in my letterpress workshop (the ‘Typoretum’), working on many and varied bespoke printing projects.
One of these recent projects involved typesetting a wedding invitation in Garamond Italic with swash capitals and alternate terminal [...]
Welcome to the ninth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website.
This week I am looking for the name of the typeface and its’ designer. Please email your answers to me; all [...]
By Justin Knopp
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Tagged Acorn Type Foundry, Eric Gill, Floriated Capitals, Gill Floriated, John Eickhoff, Monotype, Type, typefaces, typography, What Face Wednesday
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Welcome to the eighth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week’s prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards (including free International p&p) from the selection on my Typoretum website.
All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one winner will be randomly drawn. To enter the prize draw, [...]
Welcome to the seventh ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I am offering the prize of a pastiche Victorian letterpress poster (including free International p&p), hand-typeset and printed by myself on a mid-nineteenth century Columbian handpress. The prize can be viewed here.
All correct answers will be placed in a hat and one [...]
