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3IP 3IP Type Foundry is a division of Three Islands Press, a small creative company in Rockport, Maine. http://www.3ipfonts.com/

3IP Type Foundry is known chiefly for its historical penmanship fonts, old map lettering, and antique text type dating back to the 1600s. The foundry's historical collection has its own website...

http://www.oldfonts.com/
..and appeals not only to design professionals but also historical reenactors and living history hobbyists, genealogy buffs, and handwriting aficionados.

3IP's main web found

ry—3IPfonts.com—also represents type designers Lars Bergquist, a master of text faces, and Patricia Lillie, whose fonts have inimitable personality.

September 8th being World Ampersand Day, here’s the typographic character from our Lamar Pen font (modeled after the pen...
09/09/2023

September 8th being World Ampersand Day, here’s the typographic character from our Lamar Pen font (modeled after the penmanship of Mirabeau B. Lamar, a political leader in the days of the Republic of Texas).

oldfonts.com/lamar-pen

How fun to discover our American Scribe font featured prominently on correspondences in the elaborate Hatch Escapes game...
07/16/2023

How fun to discover our American Scribe font featured prominently on correspondences in the elaborate Hatch Escapes game “Mother of Frankenstein”!

3ipfonts.com/americanscribe
oldfonts.com/americanscribe
hatchescapes.com/mofabout

Extremely talented Zompa, of Zompa Design–who designs all kinds of escape games—used several of our fonts in the illustr...
07/16/2023

Extremely talented Zompa, of Zompa Design–who designs all kinds of escape games—used several of our fonts in the illustrations in last year’s “Leonardo Da Vinci and the Diabolical Weapon,” by Arnaud Cebollada (published by Éditions Hachette). This two-page spread features three!

www.zompa.fr/
3ipfonts.com/antiquarian-scribe
3ipfonts.com/remsen-script
3ipfonts.com/antiquarian

Was pleasantly surprised to see our Antiquarian Scribe font used on a Bostonian Museum sign in Season 1, Episode 2 of HB...
04/10/2023

Was pleasantly surprised to see our Antiquarian Scribe font used on a Bostonian Museum sign in Season 1, Episode 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us.”

3ipfonts.com/antiquarian-scribe
oldfonts.com/antiquarian-scribe

How fun to see at least three of our fonts used in Netflix’s “The Pale Blue Eye.” (Here’s Emily Austin, skewed a bit to ...
01/15/2023

How fun to see at least three of our fonts used in Netflix’s “The Pale Blue Eye.” (Here’s Emily Austin, skewed a bit to the left so there’s not as much slant.)

3ipfonts.com/emily-austin
oldfonts.com/emily-austin

(Houston Pen is used in the numerals at the buttom of this image: oldfonts.com/houston-pen.)

So fun to see Geographica Script so conspicuously used in JOHN COMPANY (Second Edition), a beautiful new creation by Weh...
12/16/2022

So fun to see Geographica Script so conspicuously used in JOHN COMPANY (Second Edition), a beautiful new creation by Wehrlegig Games.

oldfonts.com/geographica-script
https://wehrlegig.com/

Finished a new font. Now available:oldfonts.com/bonhomme-richard3ipfonts.com/bonhomme-richard
11/01/2022

Finished a new font. Now available:

oldfonts.com/bonhomme-richard
3ipfonts.com/bonhomme-richard

Was delighted to see our Antiquarian and Antiquarian Scribe fonts gracing the cover of TELLING STONE, a new novel by old...
10/11/2022

Was delighted to see our Antiquarian and Antiquarian Scribe fonts gracing the cover of TELLING STONE, a new novel by old pal Scott Dickerson (about Paleolithic hunters/gatherers/artists), designed and produced by .

oldfonts.com/antiquarian
oldfonts.com/antiquarian-scribe
maineauthorspublishing.com/telling-stone/

Cool to find our Emily Austin font used on a t-shirt in the “Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams” collection.oldfonts.com/e...
10/11/2022

Cool to find our Emily Austin font used on a t-shirt in the “Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams” collection.

oldfonts.com/emily-austin
m00nshot.com/collections/vintage-minor-league-baseball

The 75th Maine Lobster Festival opens in a few days (Aug 3–7, 2022), which reminds us that our Marydale font was used in...
07/31/2022

The 75th Maine Lobster Festival opens in a few days (Aug 3–7, 2022), which reminds us that our Marydale font was used in promotional materials for the 51st Lobster Festival back in 1998 (For more info about Marydale, visit marydalefont.com.)

The use of our American Scribe font on a bottle of ink could not be more appropriate. This one happens to be “Rotten Sea...
06/05/2022

The use of our American Scribe font on a bottle of ink could not be more appropriate. This one happens to be “Rotten Seaweed,” by Birmingham Pen Company (birminghampens.com).

oldfonts.com/american-scribe

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