It’s another Kickstarter success story. In the spring of 2011, Matt Braun & Matt Griffin, graphic designers and letterpress printers, went on the micro-funding site looking for backers. Their goal was to find wood type with unique characteristics missing from existing fonts, print the wood type, and turn the prints into digital typefaces that they would then sell for between $10 and $20 a face.
They succeeded, raising $19,204, and on August 29 they opened the Wood Type Revival store. So far you can buy four typefaces: Fat Boy, French Clarendon Ornamented, Gothic Shaded, and Roycroft. Each are $15 and are OpenType fonts that work on Windows and the Mac.
Typekit customers with a Personal plan or higher can also use these four Wood Type Revival typefaces as webfonts.
At $15 a pop, these fonts are very reasonably priced, but if you must inspect the merchandise before you buy, you can download a free “beta” of Fatboy Husky from Wood Type Revival’s Kickstarter page.
This article was last modified on January 8, 2023
This article was first published on September 6, 2011
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