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.
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 seemed to come together pretty well. With very little encouragement I was tempted to develop the new fledgling letters into a fully grown face, and Hindlewood is the result.
Hindlewood comprises six fonts: Three varieties of ornamentation, Soft, Hard and Sans; each with Grotesque and Regular variants.
A word can be given quite a different feel by the use of some alternative characters.
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