Tag: halftone screen
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Letterpress Logo Notes for Sixgill
Sixgill’s logo uses a gradation of green — from light on the left to dark on the right. Normally that’s not the sort of thing letterpress does well. But using a fine halftone screen, we printed two shades of green on top of one another to achieve the gradation effect.
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Stationery Fit For a Dean
Walt’s stationery design is simple, but deceivingly so. We printed the three-color piece on 5×7 cotton paper with a fine halftone screen in the lighter blue ink pass, creating the illusion of a third blue — lighter than the lines that outline the abstract wave shape.
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Lavender & Mint in Scappoose
Here’s a lovely wedding set for Parklife’s favorite brother and his favorite new wife. For the save the date we used two custom inks on thick 600g ecru paper. For the invitations, we carried through the same inks, paper, along with a few variations on the Gotham typeface. On the back of the invitation we added…
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Shades of Blush
David and Allyson’s invitation set was based on Petal, which features an original illustration by Parklife Press. The text, set in all-caps Gill Sans, is set off by the lightly-flourished script of their names. The asymmetry of the single, flowering branch — printed in tungsten and blush inks — provides a fresh and cheerful balance…
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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…