HWT BORDERS ONE

A SYSTEM OF connecting BORDERS in font form

Digitized by Richard Kegler

 

Wood Type Catalogs of the 19th century often offered tools and accessories alongside alphabets of wood type. Probably the most closely related was wood type borders and ornaments. Decorative Borders were often sold by the foot and accompanied by corner pieces that matched the designs. These borders could be assembled in almost any size dimensions as needed. The digital version uses the same principals of modular assembly to create the exact size border that is needed.

 

Along with the borders, included in this font are a selection of "streamers". These banners would have been made to order with the font designs reversed out along a horizontal banner with decorative end caps. The digital version allows for a modular assembly by selecting choice of end caps and then typing the = as many times as needed to achieve the desired length. 10 styles of 9 piece borders can be created in any size variations as well as 8 styles of streamers in any desired length. Some of the designs can be mixed and matched for unusual contemporary design interpretations of these historic styles. It is recommended that the line height (leading) is set to the same size as the point size setting, this will visually lock all elements together

 

Price: $24.95

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TEST DRIVE

The accompanying chart shows how typing keys on a keyboard will build up boxes and borders that can be layered with text and other design elements


 The font features: full support for Western and Central European languages including speciaized characters for Turkish, Romanian and Croatian.
 

 


THE MAKING OF THE FONT

 


  • The borders and streamers found in this font are based directly on the designs offered by the Hamilton Manufacturing company at the end of the 19th Century.

    • Wood type manufacturers offered streamers that were custom cut with negative letterforms, as modular streamer alphbabets that were pre-cut with specific fonts and assembled the same way as any font might be...and most commonly as blank streamers that would have any second color type printed over the top.