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Letterpress Text

by Chris Costello
Individual Styles from $28.75 USD
Complete family of 6 fonts: $115.75 USD
The Letterpress Text Font Family was designed by Chris Costello and published by Chris Costello. Letterpress Text contains 4 styles and family package options.

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Per Style:

$19.29 USD

Pack of 6 styles:

$115.75 USD

About the 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: Chris Costello

Design Owner: Chris Costello

MyFonts debut: Nov 8, 2001

Letterpress Text

About Chris Costello

Chris Costello is an award winning graphic designer, coin designer, Illustrator, and type designer based in Boston, Massachusetts. He was introduced to the creative arts by his father, a graphic designer for IBM, and began hand painting commercial signs when he was eleven years old. He studied design, calligraphy, and illustration in college and graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design and Visual Communication.Early in his career, Chris worked in advertising agencies as an art director and technical illustrator in Miami, FL and Boston, MA. It was during this period that he developed an interest in typeface design and created several original font families including Blackstone and Papyrus, which is part of the Monotype Font Library. He transitioned to publishing in the mid 1990’s and created book covers and illustrations for clients including Harper Collins, Candlewick Press, Scholastic, Random House, and Viking Press. By the early 2000’s, he was designing websites for filmmakers and writers including NY Times best-selling authors Matthew Pearl and Robert Kurson. Since 2010, he has worked with The United States Mint as an Artistic Infusion Program Artist and is credited with 27 coin and medal designs. In 2019 he received the coveted Coin of the Year (COTY) Award for best gold coin of 2017. Chris continues to create innovative designs for private mints, licensing partners, and numismatic programs for The Royal Mint with three United Kingdom coin designs to his credit.

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