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London-based firm Carter Wong Design recently embarked upon a lovely hand-made project to create a bespoke typeface for organic clothing company Howies.
The resulting font is named Castan—instead of creating the typeface digitally, the firm had the letters carved out of a tree before printing them out onto paper and uploading them onto the computer.
While this seems like an extremely labor-intensive way to produce a typeface, the rustic, wood-grained and unique end product is quite perfect for the nature-loving client—even the tree that was used to make the font is wind-fallen instead of having been cut down just for the project.
Watch the video below to find out how this lovely bespoke typeface was made, from the sawing of the trees to the digital refinement on the computer.
[via How Design]
London-based firm Carter Wong Design recently embarked upon a lovely hand-made project to create a bespoke typeface for organic clothing company Howies.
The resulting font is named Castan—instead of creating the typeface digitally, the firm had the letters carved out of a tree before printing them out onto paper and uploading them onto the computer.
While this seems like an extremely labor-intensive way to produce a typeface, the rustic, wood-grained and unique end product is quite perfect for the nature-loving client—even the tree that was used to make the font is wind-fallen instead of having been cut down just for the project.
Watch the video below to find out how this lovely bespoke typeface was made, from the sawing of the trees to the digital refinement on the computer.
[via How Design]