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We're collecting rare historical letterpress wood type to convert into Opentype fonts. Check out our free beta font download!

New Digital Fonts from Rare Letterpress Wood Type

We're collecting rare historical letterpress wood type to convert into Opentype fonts. Check out our free beta font download!
Created by

Matt Braun & Matt Griffin
Matt Braun & Matt Griffin

443 backers pledged $19,204 to help bring this project to life.
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Wood Type Revival Store

Hey y'all,

If you'd like to purchase the fonts for this project, check them out on the Wood Type Revival Store:

http://www.woodtyperevival.com/

–MG

What Comes Next Is the Future (web documentary)

Hello everyone!

We're making a documentary film about the web and the people who build it, What Comes Next Is the Future!

Check out the trailer and help us... Read more

Font # 10: Cosmopolitan Is Here!

This is it everyone! As of 10 minutes ago, we launched Cosmopolitan – our 10th font for Wood Type Revival. This was the last item remaining in our Kickstarter product... Read more

WTR Borders and Ornaments Released!

Go check out the latest Wood Type Revival release: Borders and Ornaments! Loads of fun decorative elements drawn from original wood type from the WTR collection. 

It's release 9/10 for... Read more

French Octagon Is Here!

I know it's been a little while since we spoke with you last, but guess what? Our new typeface release, French Octagon is now available on the Wood Type Revival store!... Read more

Grecian Light Face is Live


Our latest font, Grecian Light Face, is live!

And check out the beautiful slides designed by Trent Walton.

Now go download that thing!

Keep on pressing on,

Matt & Matt

Wood Type Revival T-shirts available!

Go Get Yourself a WTR T-Shirt!

Wood Type Revival t-shirts are now available for pre-order from United Pixel Workers! Featuring a big beautiful Gothic Open Shaded ampersand on the front,... Read more

Wood Type Revival Font Sale!

We’re taking 33% off all font orders from right now until the end of the year! That means all fonts will be $10 each instead of $15.

During checkout, just... Read more

DeLittle Chromatic is Live!


Chromatic Font, Temporary Tattoo

Our new Wood Type Revival font, DeLittle Chromatic is up for sale! This is our first chromatic (2-color) font, and we're very pleased with how it came... Read more

Concave Tuscan Is Up!

Introducing Concave Tuscan

Dearest Kickstarter backers,

Our fifth font, Concave Tuscan, is now available on the Wood Type Revival store. Go get it!

Keep on pressing on,

Matt & Matt

Wood Type Revival Is On Typekit!


WTR on the Web

A quick announcement to let you all know that your wood type web font prayers have been answered! Wood Type Revival is now on Typekit!

We've... Read more

The WTR Store Is Online! Get Your Fonts!

The Wood Type Revival online store is up! Now go get some fonts: http://www.woodtyperevival.com/

All Kickstarter backers should have received an email with their account information by now. If you have... Read more

Site Launch Next Week!


Wood Type Revival Goes Live

This is it folks! The Wood Type Revival online store will be launching next week! Starting Monday (August 22), we'll begin creating accounts for all... Read more

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Progress: Online Store & First Fonts

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More Beautiful Type!


Even more beautiful type has been unearthed for the project, right here in Pittsburgh!

Check it out on the Wood Type Revival blog!

Feels like time to get these digitized,... Read more

More Faces!

New photos are up of some of the great faces we acquired on our Canadian buying trip on the Wood Type Revival site! 

Amidst all of our searching and wrangling... Read more

Wood Type Revival :: First fonts!

Hello everyone! Our first font of wood type arrived this morning from Leicester, UK, and it's a real beaut!

You can take a look now on our new Wood Type... Read more

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Successfully raised $19,204 USD with 443 backers

Thank You!

You Did It! 

Thanks to the steady support from all you wonderful people, we managed to reach our goal six days ahead of schedule. We can't thank you all enough... Read more

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Final Week / 90%


This is it, everybody! Our final seven days are here!

It's because of your heart-warming support that we've gotten this far, and we can't thank you enough! Y'all are just... Read more

Almost There / Promo Freebie!

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The Fonts We're Looking For

Thanks to the support of all our friends and backers, we've reached nearly 2/3 funding for our goal! But if we're going to reach 100%, we'll need to continue to... Read more

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FastCoDesign Feature / Wacom Tablet / 50% Funding!


Our little Kickstarter project was featured in a great article by John Pavlus on FastCoDesign today! Needless to say, we're pleased and grateful for the extra attention.

In other news,... Read more

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1/3 Done, Keep Spreading the Word!

Thanks to everyone for the fantastic first week of our Kickstarter project! Yesterday we cracked $5,000, and we're officially more than a third of the way to our funding goal.... Read more

Wood Type Preservation

You know when there's just too much bad news in the world, and you have to stop looking at news sites for a while or risk really freaking out? Well... Read more

Dribbbleddd!

The Dribbble community has been unbelievable in supporting our Kickstarter project. Seems like a lot of designers want to see some new wood type-based fonts!

It started with Matt Braun's... Read more

Borders & Ornaments



One font we're really excited about creating for this project is the borders & ornaments font. We intend to have 9 fonts that are typefaces, and one that is... Read more
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