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Letterpress and Halftone Screens
What prints best with letterpress? The short answer is: Text, line art, and fairly small areas of solid color. A few typical examples… Does that mean you can’t use tints of your chosen ink to create shading within one design? Or do color mixing of any kind? Not at all. It just requires a different…
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New England Coast
This was a set we printed for a couple in Maine who designed their own invitation. It was printed on Pearl White paper and featured bermuda edge paint. Helkin and Jamie both work in the online world so they planned to provide most of the details on the Web — but they still wanted a…
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Joyful Blue
Emily found Parklife Press through the wedding-planning site Snippet and Ink. A librarian and archivist by trade (“I totally geek out for all things paper”), she loved the idea of of letterpress for their invites. She also loved the simplicity of the Bookplate design in particular. She felt the painted edges were “an amazing,…
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Autumn Paisley
Jennie and Mark found the perfect necktie for him to wear at their autumn wedding — the pattern was a stylized paisley in orange and brown, with some lilac. That purchase turned into the inspiration for their wedding invitation. They loved letterpress, and after searching a bit for a good, independent printer, they found Parklife…
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A New Year’s Swirl of Silver and Gold
Katie and Seth were getting married on the eve of New Year’s Eve, in Portland, Maine. They wanted a simple, elegant look — and getting married so close to holidays, they knew they wanted invitations that looked wintery without looking Christmas-y. They found the Whirl design and knew it would work well with their wedding…
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A Handful of New Letterpress Business Cards
We’ve added some great new cards to our business gallery. Take a look… These double-sided cards for Cedarly, a media and web branding company in North Carolina, feature their logo printed with a tinted white ink. We could have just as easily blind-pressed the logo (no ink at all), but the tinted white helps it…
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Winter Wedding in Spokane
Sydney and Kramer knew little about letterpress before planning their wedding, but heard that the printing style could make beautiful invitations. After some research, they found Parklife Press and loved the designs. When they got some of our samples in the mail, they were sold — they knew the elegance of the invitations would go…
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Durham, Via …
Megan and Ted had a bold, simple look in mind for their invitations. Both loved the clean look of the Futura typeface, which captured the wedding’s modern and traditional blend of styles. They first grabbed their guests’ attention with a save the date card, featuring a custom illustration by Travis, which traced the couple’s route…
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Minimalist in Long Island City
After seeing the Parker invitation design featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, Liz and Adriel were drawn to the classic look of the invitation. They knew they wanted letterpress invitations; in Liz’s words, they were “choosing to send physical invitations in a digital world,” so the texture of the imprinted text and the feel of the…