Catalogue
Typefaces
Five revival typefaces cut from engraved bookplates, banknote counters, and map lettering, released one at a time as each plate is fully redrawn.
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05
Mar 2026
Meridian
The fifth cut in the catalogue is the widest letterform I've revived so far, taken from the title cartouche of an 1822 coastal survey map that was meant to be...
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04
Nov 2025
Counterproof
A counterproof is a mirror-pulled impression taken directly off a freshly inked plate, made to check the engraving before it goes to press, and mine came from a conservator who...
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03
Aug 2025
Plate Mark
Plate Mark is the foundry's first typeface, and the one I didn't go looking for. I bought a dealer's box of estate-sale ephemera for three banknote proof sheets I wanted...
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02
May 2025
Promissory
Banknote engravers of the 1860s were solving a problem type designers rarely face on purpose: making letters that are almost impossible to copy by hand. Aldous and Kerr's counter for...
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01
Feb 2025
Portolan
The plate I worked from lives in a maritime archive box labeled only "Sound and Belts, misc., 18th c." — a chart of the strait between Denmark and Sweden, engraved...