Letterpress Text
Letterpress Text	$23.75
Letterpress Text Italic
Letterpress Text Italic	$23.75
Letterpress Text Bold
Letterpress Text Bold	$23.75
Letterpress Text Bold Italic
Letterpress Text Bold Italic	$23.75
Letterpress Text Swash Caps
Letterpress Text Swash Caps	$3.99
Letterpress Text Swash Caps Bold
Letterpress Text Swash Caps Bold	$3.99

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: November 8th, 2001 (Updated: Dec 12th, 05)
Designed by: Chris Costello
Contained in Category: Decorative & Display
Design owned by: Chris Costello
MyFonts Keywords: 1700s, ancient, antiqued, booktype, caslon, decorative, letterpress, newyorker, oldstyle, oldstylenumerals, quaint, rustic, serif [suggest]

Letterpress Text

This font, based on the popular and timeless Caslon design, was carefully digitized from the pages of an antique book which was printed in England during the late 18th century.

I was particularly intrigued by a few unique treatments of such characters as the lower case italic ‘p’, the question marks and various swash caps, that I had never seen before. During the conversion process, I made sure to preserve the worn look of faded ink on old paper by maintaining a subtle level of decay and opacity with each character.

Used as a text font, The Letterpress Text Family successfully reproduces the appearance of old letterpress lithography.

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