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Bonsai™


Bonsai™ is a Three Islands Press font family with 2 styles priced from $29.00.

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Bonsai™


BonsaiPurchase Options
  Bonsai Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$29.00

Bonsai ItalicPurchase Options
  Bonsai Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$29.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: June 29th, 2006
Designed by: Brian Willson
Designed when: 1997
Design owned by: Three Islands Press
MyFonts Keywords: 1950s, ancient, letterpress, topheavy, uneven, vintage [suggest]


Bonsai

Years ago, I developed an interest in the Japanese art of dwarfed potted trees, bonsai. I bought some books on the subject from Brooklyn Botanic Garden. In one -- Handbook on Bonsai: Special Techniques (seventh printing, February 1976) -- the type was bad. Old worn lead type, I suspect, spread wide in the tops of characters and disappearing on the bottoms.

Two decades later, I came across my Brooklyn Botanic Garden collection and was struck again by this interesting type. Inspired, I made a typeface. Didn't take me long to decide on a name for it, either: a name with a double-meaning, based both on its look and its inspiration.

Bonsai, the typeface, has two styles, a roman and a true italic.


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