Tag Archives: Type

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.19

Welcome to the nineteenth ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I have decided not to add a proof of the typeface as it is a relatively easy offering but I am looking for the name of the typeface and its’ designer.
The prize is a choice of any two hand-printed letterpress greeting cards [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.18

Welcome to the eighteenth ‘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, [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.17

Welcome to the seventeenth ‘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, [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.16

Welcome to the sixteenth ‘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, [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.15

Welcome to the fifteenth ‘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.
To enter, all you need to do is identify the typeface shown below and  email your answer to me. Whoever correctly [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.14

Welcome to the fourteenth ‘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, [...]

I am type

Of my earliest ancestry neither history nor relics remain. The wedge-shaped symbols impressed in plastic clay by Babylonian builders in the dim past foreshadowed me: from them, on through the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians, down to the beautiful manuscript letters of the mediaeval scribes, I was in the making.
With the golden vision of the [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.13

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, [...]

Hand typecasting at the Atelier Press & Letterfoundry

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 [...]

‘What Face Wednesday’ No.11

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 [...]