Neacademia letterpress detail

A detail of Neacademia test broadsheet printed by Peter Fraterdeus in his fine establishment SlowPrint™. It was printed from photopolymer plates on the Vandercook 219 press. The text from ‘The four books of Architecture’ by Andrea Palladio was set in English and Russian using multiple optical sizes. Despite the fact that the typeface was still in beta version by then, the sheet nicely illustrates how Neacademia’s ragged contours smooth out when printed.

Photography by Peter Fraterdeus and Sergei Egorov.