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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

An example of retro cereal packaging using vintage illustrations and fonts. Incorporating nostalgic fonts and typography Chunky, whimsical fonts that mimic sign painting or old typewriter print evoke nostalgia. Certain font styles tie to previous eras through their unique shapes, weights, and finishing.

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Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

Eye on Design

The phrase is a pangram – a sentence featuring every letter of the alphabet used by designers to test out fonts – invented by Karlopoulos to check the letters on his vintage Olivettis, Olympias, and Bar-Lets; flea market finds that form a fraction of the archive collected in the designer’s basement studio. . and the Latin a.