Last month I set and printed a “certificate of authenticity” that Lisa can attach to her relief prints. I’m happy with the result; it was a fiddly job.

A certificate titled “HANDPRINTED.”

One of the fiddlier fiddly parts was figuring out how to set the “fill in the blank” lines. What I ended up doing is using 2 point line rule, buttressed by 10 point slugs, which conveniently combined to match the 12 point Gill Sans.

Hand-set type showing line rule.

The 10 point spacers, by the way, came from the old Prince County Hospital print shop; I store them now, as they did then, in medical specimen bottles. 

Peter Rukavina

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