The process is messy, requires some manual labor and takes meticulous detail and attention to complete perfectly. But the old-fashioned and intricate ways of the letterpress are gaining popularity in ...

In a world where the term "changing the font" conjures the drag and click of a computer mouse, a visit to the San Francisco Center for the Book provides a whole new appreciation for those newspaper ...

A handmade card is always special, but the crisp imprint that the letterpress process creates has a unique character. Plus, once you’ve hand set your design it’s easy to produce many cards.

If you’re a typenerd like myself, you enjoy things such as serifs, kerning, ligatures, logotype, mean line, metrics, multiple master font, orphan line, outline font, just to name a few. I went to ...

The Web site of Trip Print Press declares them to be "Practioners of the black art, letterpress." Some use the letterpress process purely for the nostalgia factor, but TPP works with it because of its ...

Sporting a tidy pink sweater and pouring tea from a china pot, Macon York does not look like someone who owns a guillotine. It's not what you think, she explains. The guillotine isn't for chopping ...

In a world of fast-paced connectivity, digital books, and face-to-face interactions using electronics, Alex Green finds solace when poring over a letterpress, meticulously placing each individual ...

THE PRINCIPAL OF STUDIO ON FIRE IS BEN LEVITZ, wiry and boyish with blunt-cut sandy hair and spectacles that, like Sarah Palin’s, stand out from his face. But unlike the Republican vice-presidential ...