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Potbank Font Family was designed by Alister Shapley and published by Applied Systems Design Studio. Potbank contains 9 styles and family package options.

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About Potbank Font Family


Like many cities in the Midlands and North of England, Stoke-on-Trent has a rich history linked to making and industry. In Stoke’s case it was pottery. In the early 1900s bottle kilns could be seen covering the landscape of the six towns making up Stoke-on-Trent with hundreds of factories producing some of the best ceramics in the world. But by the 1990s most of these had gone. Torn down for development of housing or just left to rot. During the next few decades Stoke continued to change. The industry was in a decline and Stoke itself was seen as another poor midlands city with a dwindling industry.

Then in 2008, Spode, one of the largest and most famousceramics factories in Stoke entered into administration. Pens cast aside, drawings left half finished, designs left in the turned-off kilns; Spode factory was abandoned. This was a real shock and the way everything was getting thrown into skips to be put on the tip was heartbreaking. Thankfully people salvaged some of the technical drawings, sketch design, old sample pieces and ceramics that people hard worked so hard on.

Potbank has been in development over a number of years taking inspiration from the heritage and designs from the ceramics industry. It has a mixed Clarendon and Antiqua style structure with its main purpose to be used as a printed type.

Designers: Alister Shapley

Publisher: Applied Systems Design Studio

Foundry: Applied Systems Design Studio

Design Owner: Applied Systems Design Studio

MyFonts debut: Dec 27, 2023

Potbank

About Applied Systems Design Studio

Applied System Design Studio is a design studio offering brand and type design services. Our self-initiated type design work takes inspiration from multiple historic and heritage letter forms. We aim to create unique typefaces through a curation of different styles that blend into something different. Our typefaces usually have meaning and a backstory that drives the design from concept through to completion. This can be from a political, social or historical foundation that we explore through letterforms and words.

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