Description
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Letterpress Chromatic Railroad Gothic Shaded Ornamented typeface, is reconstructed and redesigned as wood type by Petrescu Press, built on the skeleton of Railroad Gothic, a traditional typeface, bold and industrial, produced by American Type Foundry in 1906 and widely used in advertising.
This typeface is composed of two layers, when overlapping the two colors it results the third color.
SIZE/DIMENSION/WEIGHT
Relief depth of 1.8 mm and total block depth is standard size of 0.918″ (Anglo – American type height). Please leave a message upon purchase, if you want different type height (German, Dutch, Danish, Italian, etc)
MATERIALS UTILIZED
French polished, end-grain beech wood.
PRODUCTION METHOD
New, uninked, unused printing blocks cut from dry, treated beech wood on a cnc milling machine, each item is hand finished.
CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS
Additional characters or other custom typefaces, ornaments, borders, pattern, etc, of different sizes or relief depths may be machined upon special order.
PAYMENTS METHOD
Paypal
SHIPPING
The shipping consist of regular economy postal service delivery and it is (at least) somewhere between 7 to 14 business days for E.U. and 14- 22 business days for the United States.
Manufacture time for this item is between 5-6 weeks.
Please contact us for further details or custom orders.
Aesculus Press –
Requires precision press work to line up the very carefully cut type, but when it works, oh my the result is great. I love the shading on the curves of the letters.