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Letterpress Text

Letterpress Text

by Chris Costello
Individual Styles from $22.75
Complete family of 6 fonts: $99.75
Letterpress Text Font Family was designed by Chris Costello and published by Chris Costello. Letterpress Text contains 6 styles and family package options.

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About Letterpress Text Font Family


This font is based on the popular and timeless Caslon design and was carefully digitized from the pages of an early 19th century book. I was excited to see some unique design treatments of characters such as the lower case italic 'p', the question mark, 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. For missing characters not found in the book, I created new characters that were faithful to the style of the rest of the family. Used as a text font, The Letterpress Text Family successfully reproduces the appearance of old letterpress lithography.

Designers: Chris Costello

Publisher: Chris Costello

Foundry: Chris Costello

Original Foundry: unknown

Design Owner: Chris Costello

MyFonts debut: Nov 8, 2001

Letterpress Text

About Chris Costello

The Foundry representing American professional freelance illustrator, graphic designer and website designer Chris Costello.

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