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Typography

Halcyon Type Foundry

A custom display typeface and specimen for a foundry reviving wood type for the screen.

Client

Halcyon Type

Discipline

Typography

Location

Amsterdam

Year

2023

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The story

Halcyon Type

The brief

Halcyon owns a drawer of nineteenth-century wood type with no digital version.

Our approach

We scanned, redrew and extended the alphabet into a variable family with three widths. The specimen pairs each glyph with the original block, printed letterpress on the studio's own press.

The outcome

The family is now licensed by publishers and broadcasters across Europe.

Every letter carries the grain of the block it came from.

Halcyon Type

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