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Hypotheticals

Few things can match the elegant typesetting of a traditional title page for a well bound book.  With that thought in mind we have been experiementing with some designs to showcase some of our more...

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Bettendorf…an idea under development

Here’s another idea we’ve been toying with-just a ‘cut and paste’ mockup at the moment but an interesting idea none the less.  We’ve always likes the idea of these ‘banner’ typefaces, something we’ve...

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The Red Headed League

  Here, with the assistance of Project Gutenberg is Conan Doyle’s story ‘The Red Headed League’.  To see Wolverton Body Text in action in typesetting a large piece of text download a pdf of this...

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A Longer Sample

Here, courtesy of Mr Chaucer, we have a longer sampling of Henrician Text in use-as requested.  This should release any day now…. Filed under: Preview Announcements Tagged: Chaucer, cook's tale, font,...

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Flexibility

We always take a pride in the flexibility of our typeface designs, as well as their essential character of legibility.  We would generally see Bertoni as a display family, but we decided to try a...

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Daydreams of Chocolate

Here are some new, vintage inspired, designs for posters advertising our favourite hypothetical brand, ‘Chocolate Ambrosine’. Violet Cremes, using our Wellingborough typefaces: Dairy Mily, typeset in...

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At The Cinema…

We were extremely chuffed to have this poster for the Disney Film “Saving Mr. Banks” pointed out to us:   The main title and a large portion of the subsidiary text are set in our Anavio family of...

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The Cardboard Box

This Sherlock Holmes short story is typeset using Ames’ Text for the body text and Ames’ Roman for the headings.  Thanks are due to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of the text.  Why not download a pdf of the...

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Ringing the Changes…

The great virtue of the Stylistic Alternate feature (and indeed many other Opentype features) seems to be in making computer typesetting look hand-set, or indeed in some contexts hand drawn. Here’s an...

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