Super Lenta is a new, chromatic, modular wood type font for letterpress printing.
Inspired by Joan Trochut’s Super Tipo Veloz (Super Fast Type, produced in 1942 by Fundición Tipográfica Iranzo in Barcelona, Spain), Super Lenta (trans: Super Slow) type was designed in Illustrator®, cut into 2.75 × 2.75 × 0.9175-inch end-grain, rock maple blocks on a CNC router, letterpress printed in fluorescent orange and blue inks, hand-bound as a book, and released in 2017. Each letter consists of four modules for each color. Letterforms are 5.5x5.5 inches.
Book Produced in an Edition of 5