Old Souq
Aged paper, a round stamp and ticket cards, like a stall in an old market.
Rye · Old Standard TT
Vintage
Aged paper, letterpress and stamps
The spirit of old shops and print houses: aged paper, big display type, round badges, tickets and labels, and sepia photographs.
12 designs
What defines this style
- Typography
- A heavy display face with period character for headings, a typewriter face for small details, a classic serif for text.
- Colour
- Cream or beige paper with grain, dark brown ink, and a printer's red or ink blue as the accent.
- Layout
- Poster-like centred compositions, headings inside ribbons and badges, sections divided by dashed rules.
- Shapes
- Ticket cards with notched corners, dashed borders, round badges, photos with white borders like old prints, slightly tilted.
- Imagery
- Sepia or black-and-white photographs with grain and a vignette.
- Motion
- Minimal: quiet reveals and one stamp that lands on the page.
- Details
- Light paper texture, "established" stamps, numbers in circles, ✦ stars between elements.
- Avoid
- Pure white, glass and modern gradients, geometric modern sans faces.
12 designs
Press
Printer's red, ink blue and a typewriter, a bookshop with its own letterpress: a poster headline, the titles in a list and the evenings in columns.
Abril Fatface · Old Standard TT
Tarab 1948
Roasted brown, mustard and blackletter, a music school like a 1940s concert-hall sign: a framed headline, lessons in a dotted list and one quote at a time.
UnifrakturMaguntia · Old Standard TT
Attar
Old apothecary green and bottle labels, like a perfumer's shelves in a Jerusalem souq.
IM Fell English · Old Standard TT
Postcard
Postal red, airmail blue and postmarks, a travel agency like a card sent from abroad fifty years ago.
Abril Fatface · Lora
Darkroom
Dark sepia, film grain and a frame, like a print show in a developing room.
Playfair Display SC · EB Garamond
Est. 1985
Aged paper, oxblood and faded teal, like the hand-painted sign of a family garage: a round stamp, a dotted price list and photos of old cars.
Abril Fatface · Lora
Shoppe
Candy red and caramel on old paper, like a fifties sweet-shop window: stacked photos, stamped cards and one customer's word at a time.
Rye · Lora
Tailor
Dark olive, copper and typewriter labels, like the order book of a neighbourhood tailor: numbered lists and a ruled table of fittings.
Old Standard TT
Copybook
Blue ink and correcting red on yellowed school paper, like an old exercise book: a framed headline, text in columns and numbered steps.
IM Fell English · EB Garamond
Joinery
Dark wood, honey and moss green, like an old joinery workshop: big printed capitals, work photos in a grid and the steps of the job as a list.
Playfair Display SC · Old Standard TT
Vernissage
Rust and olive on warm paper, like an opening invitation sent by post: a striped envelope edge, the month's programme on a timeline and a wall of photos.
IM Fell English · Lora