Vredenburgh Display Font

--- WHAT'S BEHIND THE NAME "VREDENBURGH"? Create stunning book covers, band logos and album art, and other high-impact branding projects. Only basic punctuation is included. All of our Civil War-era historical fonts were copied entirely from ORIGINAL LETTERS scanned from type specimen, business directories, song sheets, broadsides, and advertisements, printed between 1848 and 1867 gathered from museums, private collections, and the Library of Congress. - Vredenburgh Regular OTF - Unique Letterforms - Works on PC & Mac The lowercase features a slight variant of the uppercase alphabet. No cheap work done, but instead with a neatness not to be excelled in the Typographical Art. This font DOES NOT include LOWERCASE or NUMBERS , as they did not exist in the original font. Since they were scanned directly from the pages of original 150 year-old documents, the letters show imperfections common to letterpress printing. Our fonts have been used by major publishing houses, including Farrar, Straus and Giroux , Penguin Random House , Vintage , Yale University Press , University of Pennsylvania Press , and Louisiana State University Press , as well as magazines such as the Civil War Times and Hallowed Ground . Interested parties are respectfully invited to call and examine additional specimens at: www.newblazingstarpress.com The proprietor is determined that this establishment shall not be surpassed by any other. --- ABOUT THE NEW BLAZING STAR PRESS. Vredenburgh Regular OTF is an ornamented serifed display font that comes from Volume 1 of The New Blazing Star Press's "Printer's Type Case." This font is ideal for museums, historical reenactors and living historians, graphic designers, and all lovers of historical typography. Also perfect for game design, packaging design, magazine imagery, wedding invitations, and much more. Peter Vredenburgh, Sr., was an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and was the namesake for Camp Vredenburgh - one of nearly a dozen camps created across New Jersey during the Civil War to train new volunteer regiments for the Union army. It was very common for 19th century typesetters to use other fonts to substitute punctuation and numerals missing from a particular typeface. We neither use humbug, false pretences, nor wear laurels won by competitors. --- WHAT IS INCLUDED. Its location is the only one to survive modern development, and is now protected within the grounds of Monmouth Battlefield State Park, in Manalapan, N.J.

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Vredenburgh Display Font