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MyFonts’ review: Poole is the foundry of talented artist Wesley Poole. In the 1970s his love of lettering expressed itself in hand-painting signs around the Napa Valley, California. Inevitably his talent was spotted by the wine business, and he spent years designing award-winning wine labels as well as working as a fine artist. Now from his Hawaii studio, Wesley creates typefaces with the help of tech wiz Rod Cavazos. The initial four families are very much exemplars of their kind, each with a few little twists that raise the design above the generic: Vingo the sophisticate (expensive-looking and generously proportioned), Contempo Elan (adds spice to a formal script), Poole Standard (the art nouveau, legible, plain one), Pagoda International (a hint of Japanese calligraphy).

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Biography

Wesley sent us these thoughts when we asked him to submit a description of Wesley Poole, the foundry:

“Even though I've been using type for decades, this is my first foray into the other side of the equation.

“I remember watching our town printer in his bib overalls, his pica pole visible in his left breast pocket, sitting at his prized linotype machine while it spit out hot lead! I started in the design business when we ordered ‘cold type’. We had to spec it out then paste it up. This sounds positively Medieval doesn’t it?

My son and I haven’t given any thought to creating a ‘foundry’, per se. We don’t have ambitions beyond just working together. No employees. No shingle-out-front facility. So there isn’t a foundry beyond two artisans creating artwork.

This could change. We’ll see. For now, that’s the situation. By the way, we will never use any portion of any existing typefaces. Any work that comes from here will always be original.”

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Further Details

46-158 Ki'owai St. # 2415
Kaneohe, HI 96744
USA

Phone: 808 236 7798
Fax: 808 236 7798

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