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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 […]

Slovak Wood Type with Diacritics

In April of this year we were contacted by Pressink, The Žurnál, located in Slovakia, for a custom wood type project. Pressink is a studio dedicated to graphic design and letterpress printing. They work with wooden and lead typefaces and try to connect analog technology with digital. The project consisted in the manufacture of custom […]

Chikki Typeface – Devanagari System

At the beginning of the year we made two sets of wood type for the type designers Kimya Gandhi and Rob Keller from Mota Italic. Their type design creations are unique. The first set of wood type was made 8 line size (33,8 mm) American type height 0.918″ Alphabet Scheme for the typefaces “Chikki”; that […]

Goluska Font – Rod McDonald

Goluska font is the work of Rod McDonald, a Canadian typographer with over 40 years of experience. His creations include Cartier Book, his interpretation of Canada’s first typeface – the Laurentian family. Rod McDonald is known for digitizing the Cartier font, hand-drawn by faimous designer Carl Dair. Carl Dair was a type designer, Canadian teacher, […]

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Letters

I chose to make this project because Mackintosh’s work is just beautiful in the truth aesthetic meaning. I have to mention that Charles Rennie Mackintosh (born June 7, 1868, Glasgow, died December 10, 1928 London) was one of the most influential designers of Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movement in the UK and Europe. Charles […]

Extra Punctuation Wood Type

Human interaction is based on a mixture of verbal and nonverbal communication. We mostly use the verbal part to convey information, while relying on the nonverbal to express our intent, feelings and attitude towards what is being said. This has always raised a challenge for the written language, with some solutions being sought, for marking irony […]

Wood Type for Beginners

Petrescu Press recently had the pleasure to take part in a project with Julie Bellier and Catherine Staebler, from Atelier bipoint, and may have very well created the very first set of wood type for beginners. The idea belongs to the two French designers, and came from the necessity of making letterpress printing more accessible […]

Questa Grande Project – Martin Majoor

This summer Petrescu Press was contacted by Mr. Thomas Gravemaker who leads Letterpress Amsterdam for a wood type project. It involved the bringing together of typeface designers, the wood type maker and letterpress printer for a first time in modern times. The font is Questa Grande, from the Questa typeface superfamily, these are some of […]