Welcome to the sixth ‘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 […]
Welcome to the fifth ‘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 […]
Welcome to the fourth ‘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. As before, answers must be posted on this Blog (as a comment) and the first correct identification of the typeface […]
Prior to 1737, little standardisation existed in the sizes of printing types and typefounders cast types to their own sizes and dimensions. In this year, the Parisian typefounder Pierre Simon Fournier introduced a new system that he derived from dividing two inches of the pre-metric French foot into one hundred and forty-four equal parts. Fournier […]
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Tagged Agate, Bourgeois, Brevier, Brilliant, Diamond, Didot, Emerald, English, Fournier, Long primer, Minikin, Minion, Nonpareil, Pearl, Pica, Point, Ruby, Small pica, Type, typecasting, Typesetting
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Welcome to the third ‘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. This week I need you to correctly identify the typeface […]
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Tagged Festival, Festival Titling, Identification, Mark McKellier, Monotype, Phillip Boydell, Simon Lewin, Type, typefaces, typography, What Face Wednesday
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Widely shared on Twitter, this movie is just too wonderful not to feature on my Blog. Filmed by Cool Hunting Video, it shows Grafica Fidalga, a trio of letterpress printers in São Paulo, Brazil, who print wood type posters on a 1929 German cylinder printing press.
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in letterpress, printing, wood type, woodletter
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Tagged Add new tag, Brazil, Grafica Fildalga, letterpress, Poster, printing, São Paulo, wood type
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April 29, 2009 – 12:43 pm
Welcome to the second ‘What Face Wednesday’ metal typeface identification competition! This week I am offering the prize of a handsome letterpress poster (including free International p&p), hand-printed by The Occasional Print Club, of which I am a member. The prize can be viewed here. As before, answers must be posted on this Blog (as […]
Since the foundation of the Druckladen des Gutenberg Museums (Printing Workshop of the Gutenberg Museum) in 1990, the city of Mainz has hosted educational letterpress and printmaking workshops for visitors and children of school age and upwards. I visited the Druckladen some ten years ago and found its’ workshop occupying two floors and very well […]
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Also posted in Education, letterpress, printing, printmaking, wood type
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Tagged BuchKinder-Werkstatt, Dr Otto Martin, Druckladen, Education, Gutenberg Museum, letterpress, Mainz, typography, Workshop
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Today I am launching a weekly series of typeface identification competitions, entitled ‘What Face Wednesday’. I will announce the start of each competition via my Twitter feed at a random time each Wednesday. A different prize will be offered each week and this week’s prize is any one hand-printed letterpress greeting card (including free International […]
I am in the midst of taking proofs of my entire collection of woodletter and it has become a monumental undertaking! In the meantime I have designed and printed a poster that, although not exhaustive, shows the primary type styles held within my collection. The range of type styles is matched by the wide range […]
By Justin Knopp
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Also posted in letterpress, woodletter
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Tagged Antique Old Style Bold, Bold Latin, Decorated French Antique, Decorated Sans Surryphs, Elongated Sans Surryphs, Expanded Antique, Expanded Grotesque, French Antique, Gill Sans, Grotesque, Latin Elongated, letterpress, Old Style Grotesque, Ornamented Wide Latin, Pointed Antique, typefaces, wooden type, woodletter
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