Burin

Type foundry · est. 2025

Burin

Burin is a one-person type foundry. Every release starts as an engraved original — a bookplate cut for a private library, a banknote counter meant to defeat forgers, a chart-maker's lettering scored into copper with a burin — and is redrawn stroke by stroke into a working digital revival, kept close to the source's own irregularities rather than smoothed into a modern default. Five typefaces are in active release in the full catalogue; each one credits its plate, its engraver where known, and the year the line was first cut.

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How a cut becomes a release

  1. 01

    Source

    Every typeface starts as a single engraved object — a bookplate, a banknote counter, a chart cartouche — photographed under raking light so the burin's own cut is visible, not just the ink it left.

  2. 02

    Redraw

    Letterforms are traced stroke by stroke, keeping the taper, the register drift, and the tool's own irregularities rather than smoothing them into a modern default.

  3. 03

    Release

    Each face ships alone, with its plate documented in full — engraver, year, and archive — once every letter it needs has been redrawn and proofed.