Today my lovely friend Anna, who runs the homemade food blog Hungry Hollowaiians and knows how much I love my type, brought to my attention the brilliant initiative that is the Wood Type Revival website.

A graphic design project based in Pittsburgh and run by designers Matt Braun and Matt Griffin, Wood Type Revival was born as a kickstarter project and saw the light of day just a couple of months ago. It does just what it says on the tin – Braun and Griffin aim to find rare wood type fonts, digitise them, and sell them on the website. Not only are they giving a new life to some beautiful old faces that wouldn’t otherwise be found on the web, they also conserve the quality of the objects by including a font that conserves the distressed aspect of the wood, should you choose to use that version.

I love everything about this initiative, and just when I thought I couldn’t like it more, I found the lovely Gothic Open Shaded… sigh.

You can also their first free font, Fatboy Husky, here.