Graphic
2024
Antwerp, Belgium
Type Cabinet
A typeface and specimen book drawn from a museum's drawers of wooden letters.
Client
Museum of Print
Services
Typeface, book design, exhibition graphics
Duration
10 months
Led by
Anouk Delorme
No. 01
Overview
A revival of a nineteenth-century wood type, redrawn for screen and paper, with a specimen book that opens like a cabinet.
Letters from a drawer
The museum holds a cabinet of wooden letters no one had set in fifty years. Anouk photographed every letter, then measured the wear on each edge.
The revival keeps the imperfections that matter: a slightly heavy crossbar, a leaning R. It does not keep the ones that only came from age.
A book that behaves like a cabinet
The specimen book has a stepped page edge, like drawers pulled halfway. Each weight has its own tab colour, and the type is printed in one ink on uncoated paper.
No. 02
Results
3
Weights drawn
412
Glyphs
1,200
Specimen books printed
No. 03
In their words
We can finally set the museum's own letters at any size.
Head of collections
No. 04
Keep walking
More doors from the studio.
Architecture
A stone farmhouse rebuilt around a row of arches and one old fig tree.
Architecture
Twenty-four homes around a shared courtyard, built from kiln-formed clay blocks.
No. 00
Next door
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