Tag Archives: wood type

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 […]

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 […]

Transylvanian Heraldry

This is a letterpress project developed by Petrescu Press, that for several reasons, we decided to take the time and write about; these are some of them: – the entire project is started from scratch, the design that was first to be conceived, with the wood type made after; – the design is made so that both […]

FF Real Wood Type Project – Erik Spiekermann

Petrescu Press has been co-opted by German type designer Erik Spiekermann, to take part in the FF Real Wood Type Project, our task was the conversion of the digital representations to physical wood type for letterpress printing. The FF Real font is the work of Erik Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois, and was released as […]