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A specimen of type

Laura — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:05:24 +0000

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time – I set 10 of our fonts in different weights, along with a number of peices of ornamental type and made a rough print for reference. This is less than half than all the fonts we have in lead, but are some of our most useful ones (Garamond and Berhhard Modern) and and a sampling of some fancy ones. It’ll have to be another day for Bank Script, Stymie Lite, Mary Lou and the rest.

Holiday cards for sale online

Laura — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:06:13 +0000

I think my goal was mid-October, and definitely I had many more holiday designs in mind, but! I did it – as of today we have a wee Etsy store and are selling two cards and DC coasters online.

The newest holiday card is above. Since it looks like two designs will be my limit this year, I’m really glad the two go well together. Lightening the snowflake/dot design on this was key – at first I used almost the same shade of blue for the type and flakes, and it was not good. But with the softer color, (Wes’s suggestion) the contrast in print styles makes sense, and it’s more reminiscent of snowflakes.

If you have feedback on the Etsy store, I’d love to hear it.

Is stamping cool? What if the stamp has an old-fashioned handle?

Laura — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:24:13 +0000

As of yet we haven’t branded our finished products. We’ve sent out cards and given finished work to clients & friends without any kind of insignia or logo printed on them for the Knotty Pine Press. I know that’s not ideal – we want people to find us, after all, and what better time to advertise than when someone’s looking at the card?

And we own a printing press, so…it seems like we should use it to print our press name. But it’s so unappealing to run a third or fourth print run just to put our name on an envelope or back of a card.

I’d be curious to know what other small presses do, but is it totally lame to use a stamp? I hope not, because I just bought a custom-made Knotty Pine Press stamp! And yes, I totally upgraded to the exclusive optional handle. As if that was even a choice.