Lead Graffiti purchased a Boss LS-1420 laser cutter to produce some of our wood types. We’ve taken a first run at a typeface I’ve been calling “Shahn Torn.” The image shows the typeface in the middle of the image with a spacing text showing on the laptop to the right. The typeface will be introduced in a book being produced for a book swap held by Upper Chesapeake Book Arts in October 2023.
Jill has suggested “Reacshahn,” which I like.
The incentive to start the typeface came with purchasing a Ben Shahn poster from 1968. That was the year I started taking my undergraduate design courses at Louisiana Tech University.
The image below gives you an idea of how the two faces connect visually. Mine are a little more “goofy” at times. You’ll notice the “H,” which has a torn paper element. The original idea was to do the whole typeface with those torn edges, but more recently, I have found a happy medium with just making some letters like that.
