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Petrescu Press appears in Association Graphê magazine

In June ’22, Patrick Bideault from the French Graphic Design Association Graphê contacted us to write an article about Petrescu Press. Patrick Bideault writes very nicely about the Petrescu Press company in the 90th edition of the magazine, a publication printed by Claude Leloup, on Munken Arctic fine papers premium uncoated, one of the world’s […]

Modern Italian Wood Type – Zetafonts

Earlier this year, Debora Manetti, of Zetafonts Type Foundry, based in Florence – Italy, contacted Petrescu Press for a collaboration in a wood type manufacturing project, for several fonts. Zetafonts is famous for creating the Fontmood platform, which hosts and promotes the work of type designers around the world, with a collection of over 7,000 […]

👉 Scala Manicule Wood Type – Martin Majoor

👉 DescriptionThe symbol “Manicule” is a typographic mark – the etymology of the word comes from the Latin language: “manicula”, which means “small hand” or fist. It is also called: printer’s fist, bishop’s fist, digit, mutton-fist, hand, hand director, pointer and pointing hand. 👉 History The Manicule symbol has been found in manuscripts, around Europe […]