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TipoRenesansa's letters

Tomaz Hrastar
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wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
Until the arrival of so-called digital age, letterpress has been one of the main printing techniques, which was mostly used for printing books, brochures, posters and invitations.

Studio tipoRenesansa is first letterpress studio in Slovenia where they maintain this printing technique.
Among other things many prints are done using wooden letters for letterpress, which were previously saved from collapse.

Some sets of wooden letters weren’t complete so I did detailed inventory of existing and missing ones. I identified each set of type with relevant literature. In process of digitalization I drew the missing letters where I adopted parts of existing ones. Digitalization was held in program for designing vector types Glyphs. In the end I produced wooden letters with the use of CNC router machine. I identified and supplemented 9 sets of tipoRenesansa’s wooden letters.
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This is my bachelor degree project under mentorship of Domen Fras.
STUDIO TIPORENESANSA
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
EXISTING WOODEN LETTERS
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
IDENTIFYING SETS
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
DIGITALIZATION 
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
CNC ENGRAVING & CHISEL FINISHING
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
NEWLY MADE LETTERS (made of cherry wood)
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As seen on the pictures below:
Antique Condensed Bold (8 cicero)
Cooper Black Italic (8 & 19,5 cicero)
Customized Kabel Demi Condensed (8 cicero)
Plak Black Extra Condensed (8 & 14 cicero)
Block Regular and Block Condensed (8, 6 & 24 cicero)
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign
CONSISTENCY TEST
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Existing letters: i, n & d
Newly made letters: m, f, u & k 
wood letters letterpress print cnc carving tiporenesansa wood type printmaking handmade typedesign


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TipoRenesansa's letters
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TipoRenesansa's letters

My bachelor degree project / Manufacture of missing wooden letters for letterpress studio tipoRenesansa.

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