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Virgin Wood Type [Geri McCormick]

In 2010, the late Bill Jones and Geri McCormick, a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, bought the machine, originally created by the American Wood Type Manufacturing Company to cut trees into letters and sell them to printers. For the next two years Bill and Geri followed suit, eventually offering a total of 23 fonts represented a survey of Victorian and Contemporary type design. They offer pantograph-cut wood type in a variety of font schemes and sizes and work out of Rochester, NY.

In 2017, prominent wood type collector John Horn commissioned Geri McCormick of Virgin Wood Type to recreate a usable wood type version of "the font with the screws on it", Mansard Ornamented, officially known as Page No. 122 (1879). James Grieshaber and Virgin Wood Type redrew it as vector art. Richard Kegler (P22) completed the digital version with all the requisites glyphs for a modern digital font. That font was published by P22 as HWT Archimedes (2017) in versions called Screw, Phillips, Hex, Star, and Without. Dedicated Behance page.

In 2019, they published a colour print called Chromatic Ornate, which is based on William H. Page's Specimens of Chromatic Wood Types (1874).

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