Typophile

Stone Carved

R27

Hi there, can anyone direct me to threads on stone carved lettering or suggest any typefaces that may stem from this discipline?

thanks in advance.

This typeface was based on incised lettering from sixteenth-century England, although the medium was wood...

Eric Gill’s work; he started as a stone cutter. Most of his typefaces derive from the alphabets he learned from stonecarving teachers.

Perpetua, Joanna, Aries, Golden Cockerel

Michael Harvey also has done a lot of carved lettering, as well as a bunch of very nice lapidary typefaces. One of Michael’s other major influences is his prolific work as a letterer for book covers, so his typefaces reflect this as much as they reflect his stonecarving work.

Strayhorn, Mezz, Ellington, Andreas

Mr. Coles for the win! Man I’m always amazed by the extensive amount of options you and Mr. Simonson provide in queries like this. True typophiles, you are!

Yeah, David is dead right, thank you all very much!

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