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Born out of expediency, Hindlewood was the result of a customer's
wish for his house name to be gilded in Old English and his supply of a rather wonderful slice of oak that was barely wide enough to accommodate it. |
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Hindlewood comprises six fonts:
Three varieties of ornamentation,
Soft, Hard and Sans; each with Grotesque and Regular variants.
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I sketched a few guides and was rather alarmed at how much I
would need to condense the lettering. However once I started painting, it all seemed to come together pretty well. With very little encouragement I was tempted to develop the few fledgling letters into a fully grown face and 'Hindlewood' is the result. |
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A word can be given quite a different
feel by the use of some alternative characters
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