IMPORTANT NOTE:
These are NOT keyable fonts. They are IMAGES made from scans of actual, hand printed, wood type.
You CANNOT TYPE with them. Each letterform or graphic element will need to be hand set one piece
at a time... much like using real wood type! Intended primarily for use as Display Type.
WOOD TYPE IMPRESSIONS - VOL. 1 CONTAINS:
• 250 Hi-Resolution, 300 dpi Grayscale bitmap Tiff images, suitable for use in any Image Editing Program like Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.
Each image set has been printed on a relief proofing press. They are printed in a progressive dark to light series onto textured fine art printmaking paper. The majority of these sets also include experimental alternate prints (distressed, scratched, over or underinked, spritzed with solvents, etc.) All the prints were then scanned, corrected and optimized.
Each Tiff contains two layers. The bottom background layer is solid white. The top layer contains
the isolated Grayscale letters or shapes with full 8 bit transparency. Just cut and paste them into
your favorite image editing program. Use layers, blending modes and layer styes to compose, arrange, color or otherwise effect them.
If you want to colorize them, be sure to either first convert them or paste them into a CMYK or RGB working document!
FONTS:
• 8 Complete, Hi-Res, bitmap Wood Type fonts: in light to dark series + alternates.
• 5 Partial, Hi-Res, bitmap Wood Type fonts: in light to dark series + alternates.
• 8 Mixed, Hi-Res, bitmap Wood Type samplers: in light to dark series + alternates.
NOTE: The original wood type letter forms range in size from approximately 1" to 4". There are a few that are larger and some lowercase letters are 1/2" high or so, but the majority of the original wooden letters are in the 2" to 4" range. At 300 dpi there should be sufficient resolution in these images to use them for posters and broadsheets.
If for some reason, you might need them larger, I've had good luck scaling them up 300-400% using Genuine Fractals 5. Photoshop's image scaling routines seem to do a fine job in this range as well.
SHAPES:
• 3 Hi-Res, bitmap Wood Type Circles samplers: in light to dark series.
• 1 Hi-Res, bitmap Wood Type Line samplers: in light to dark series.
• 2 Hi-Res, bitmap Wood Type Ornament samplers: in light to dark series + alternates.
• 6 Hi-Res, bitmap Wood Type Rectangle samplers: in light to dark series.
• 2 Hi-Res, bitmap Wood Type Shape samplers: in light to dark series.
• 1 Hi-Res, bitmap Wood Type assorted Squares sampler.
• 1 Hi-Res, bitmap Wood Type Triangle sampler: in light to dark series.
GALLERY:
• 15 Sample images made with Wood Type Fonts.
• 7 Sample images made with Wood Type Shapes.
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