Real lead letterpress type, printed, scanned and turned into a digital font.

Letterpress Kabel is a dusty, decades-old type found in a type drawer labelled “72 pt Kabel Medium.” I pulled a nicely inked print—black ink on off-white paper—on my flatbed proofing press. I then pulled another print without re-inking the type. This becomes the “destroyed” version.

This test prints were scanned at 1200 dpi to make a display face with tons of character that is usable at any size.

Two faces included: Regular & Destroyed
Full upper and lower case letter sets with a limited character set (there is only so much lead type you can fit in a dirty old drawer).