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Attic Antique

Attic Antique™

by Three Islands Press
Individual Styles from $29.00 USD
Complete family of 2 fonts: $49.00 USD
Attic Antique Font Family was designed by published by Three Islands Press. Attic Antique contains 2 styles and family package options.

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    Attic Antique Family

    2 fonts

    Best Value!

    Per Style:

    $24.50 USD

    Pack of 2 styles:

    $49.00 USD

    About Attic Antique Font Family


    Attic Antique by Three Islands Press. Flipping through a friend’s old hardbound collection of John Burroughs nature essays a while back, I thought it'd be fun to try to develop a typeface with the same uneven, imperfect look to it. I picked and chose among various printed characters, enlarged them somewhat with a photocopier, then hand-rendered each. Had to custom-make some of the accents and symbols, then added a couple goofy dingbats just for the heck of it. The result: an amazingly legible serif family akin to the Century faces.

    Designers:

    Publisher: Three Islands Press

    Foundry: Three Islands Press

    Original Foundry: Three Islands Press

    Design Owner: Three Islands Press

    MyFonts debut: Jun 29, 2006

    Attic Antique™ is a trademark of Three Islands Press.

    About Three Islands Press

    Three Islands Press (a.k.a., “3IP”) is a small type foundry in Rockport, Maine. Specialties include historical replications, fine text type, old map fonts, and painstaking recreations of vintage and modern handwriting. 3IP is the d.b.a. of Brian Willson, who accidentally stumbled into type design in the 1990s after a career in print and broadcast journalism. He has absolutely no formal training—just a peculiar knack for making fonts that look like real handwriting and antique text materials. 3IP a...

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