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Real Wood Type

To show wood type, you need real wood type. And that’s what Mark Kusek’s Wood Type Impressions provides. These extremely high resolution, professional quality scans were made from actual, hand printed, wood type. Each set was printed on an etching press in a series from light to dark ink, onto textured fine art printmaking paper. Some [...]

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Font Examiner Finds Glyphs Across All Your Fonts

Artistic Techworks’ Font Examiner 3 does more than just let you see and print all the characters in a font — although it does that very well. My favorite features are: You can open and work with uninstalled fonts. You can view the outlines and anchor points of any glyph (character). You can copy and paste any glyph [...]

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Collections of Handwriting Fonts

Chank Diesel’s Go Font Yourself is a collection of 21 genuine handwriting fonts in OpenType format. They’re terrific for implying a personality type when presenting handwritten text, or you may even find one that’s similar to your own handwriting and you can then use it to represent yourself in printed materials. The website has a downloadable, 22-page [...]

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