Waybill — Western wood type, printed the hard way.
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A waybill was the paper that rode along with the freight. Stagecoach and railroad shipments carried one, and the type on it came out of a print shop's cases. Waybill is my condensed slab serif in that spirit: tall and narrow, with flared serifs, built to say a lot in not much width.
Then I made it print. The four Letterpress styles are Waybill as a worn press would print it, every letter worn on its own. Letterpress Starved is a press that ran short of ink: the edges hold and the middles go dry and sandy. Letterpress Starved Alt is the same press on a different day, so a letter that repeats doesn't have to look the same twice. Letterpress Damaged is old wood type with nicks, chipped corners, scratches and a split along the grain, and not one letter comes apart. Letterpress Damaged Starved is that worn block on a dry day.
Every style carries the same 528 glyphs: Western and Central European, Turkish, Baltic and Vietnamese, small caps, alternate C, G and S, tabular figures and kerning throughout. I reach for it on wanted posters, barbecue and brewery labels, rodeo and county fair signs, book covers and menus.
Waybill is a condensed western slab serif with four letterpress styles made the way a worn press prints. Starved runs short of ink, Damaged is beat-up wood type and Damaged Starved is both. Every letter was worn on its own, so the texture isn't a pattern laid over the type.
Waybill is a condensed western slab serif, tall and narrow with flared serifs, built to say a lot in not much width. It's at home on wanted posters, rodeo and county fair signs, barbecue and brewery labels, menus and book covers. Regular sets a clean headline; the four Letterpress styles make it look set by hand in an old print shop.
Letterpress Starved Alt is a second set of Starved letters, each one starved differently. Swap it in where a letter repeats, like the double S in MISSISSIPPI, and the repeats stop looking identical.
The wear in Waybill's Letterpress styles comes from random numbers seeded by a wall of lava lamps. Where a scratch lands, where a corner chips and where the ink runs dry were left to that draw, letter by letter, so no two letters wear alike. However beat up a letter gets, it stays in one piece.
Every Waybill style has the same 528 glyphs, covering Western and Central European languages, Turkish, the Baltic languages and Vietnamese, with small caps, alternate C, G and S, tabular figures and kerning throughout.
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