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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 […]