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Fonts designed,Four families, seventeen styles, from the mailroom.

Client
Lorenzo Scardicchio, his own
Year
2026
Made
Four type families · The foundry site · The mailroom: paintings, writing, muses
Status
Built from its own files, October 2026

Type drawn and traced from Lorenzo Scardicchio's own hand: Lorenzo Hand, Longhand, Typewriter and Meadow, served from the mailroom on paper photographed from his desk.

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Project overview

Fonts designed

Lorenzo Type is four families from one desk, seventeen styles in all, each free: Lorenzo Hand, traced letter by letter from the writing on an order sheet; Lorenzo Longhand, the pen-stroke hand in Ballpoint, Graphite and Inkwell; Lorenzo Typewriter, serif and sans in Thin, Light, Regular and Bold; Lorenzo Meadow, Script, Stitched, Sans Light and Regular, and Ornaments.

The home page is the order sheet itself, on gingham: date, name, Rural Route 2 Box 17, Low Moon KS, and the four families as its lines. Lorenzo Hand is a blue-ballpoint cursive lifted from two pages written by hand, an order sheet filled in for Far Light Gardens and the captions pencilled beside a pressed spurge; every word on those pages is in the font whole, as the hand wrote it. The mailroom files the paintings, the writing and the muses, and the whole site can be read on the meadow paper instead.

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Families: Hand, Longhand, Typewriter, Meadow
17
Styles, all free
3
Weights of Lorenzo Hand: Regular, As Written, Fine
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Pages of handwriting the Hand was traced from

Lorenzo Type

The name, in his hand
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Fonts designed

The name, in his hand

Lorenzo Type set in Lorenzo Hand, the ballpoint cursive traced from his own order sheet, at the Regular weight; the font file is the site's own.

  • Kraft the order sheet's ground#D9CFA6
  • Cream the sheet#F3EEDB
  • Mailroom paper the pages#ECE6C6
  • Ballpoint the Hand#3D376F
  • Letterpress printed words#4A4036
  • Sheet ink the form's ink#5B5346
Colour
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Fonts designed

Colour

Paper from the desk: the gingham and kraft of the order sheet, the cream sheets, the ballpoint blue and the letterpress brown the stylesheet names (--ballpoint, --letterpress, --sheet-ink).

Lorenzo Hand

Lorenzo Hand · Regular · As Written · Fine

Mrs. Celeste Rousseau, Rural Route 2 Box 17, Low Moon KS. Around Sept. 1

Lorenzo Longhand

Lorenzo Longhand · Ballpoint · Graphite · Inkwell

the pen-stroke hand

Lorenzo Typewriter

Lorenzo Typewriter · Thin · Light · Regular · Bold

THIRD NOTICE OVERDUE PIECE(S) ARE LISTED AS FOLLOWS:

The families
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Fonts designed

The families

Lorenzo Hand, Longhand, Typewriter and Meadow, each served from the site's own files; the specimen here uses those files.

A white feather taped to a torn kraft card, written '36 in the corner.
The feather card
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Fonts designed

The feather card

A white feather taped to a torn kraft card, written '36 in the corner: one of the scans the site is cut from.

The site, page by pageType drawn and traced from Lorenzo Scardicchio's own hand, served from the mailroom on paper photographed from his desk.
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Design note

The site, page by page

Type drawn and traced from Lorenzo Scardicchio's own hand, served from the mailroom on paper photographed from his desk. The home page is the order sheet on gingham; each family has its specimen page with a tester, every glyph and the files to take.

The Lorenzo Hand page: the keepsake card, the pressed plant, the tester.
Lorenzo HandA blue-ballpoint cursive, lifted from two pages written by hand: an order sheet filled in for Far Light Gardens, and the captions pencilled beside a pressed spurge.
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Design note

Lorenzo Hand

A blue-ballpoint cursive, lifted from two pages written by hand: an order sheet filled in for Far Light Gardens, and the captions pencilled beside a pressed spurge. Every word on those pages is in the font whole, as the hand wrote it, and the ligature sets the scan's own word, joins, slips and all. Three weights: Regular is the order sheet's ballpoint set a little heavier than it wrote; As Written is that ballpoint at the weight it has on the page; Fine is the thinner pen of the captions.

A pressed spurge, its round leaves fanned out flat, from the scans.
Drawn as the pen made itEvery word and letter is redrawn from its pen strokes, not traced around the scan's ink: each glyph's ink is reduced to its centre lines, joined into strokes wherever the hand went straight on through a crossing, smoothed by a spline that may stray only a tenth of a pen width from the ink's own middle, and drawn back as discs at the pen's width.
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Design note

Drawn as the pen made it

Every word and letter is redrawn from its pen strokes, not traced around the scan's ink: each glyph's ink is reduced to its centre lines, joined into strokes wherever the hand went straight on through a crossing, smoothed by a spline that may stray only a tenth of a pen width from the ink's own middle, and drawn back as discs at the pen's width. A ballpoint pools where it pauses, so in Regular each knob is put back in the ink's own shape.

The feather card.
A faded square photograph of a kitchen garden in summer.
A pressed spurge, its round leaves fanned out flat.
The scans the site is cut from (assets/scan): the feather card, the polaroid, the pressed plant.

“Every word on those pages is in the font whole, as the hand wrote it.”

From the Lorenzo Hand page
The Lorenzo Typewriter page: the tester and the specimen.
Lorenzo TypewriterSerif and sans in Thin, Light, Regular and Bold; the tester is the line below the heading, drafted by hand: THIRD NOTICE OVERDUE PIECE(S) ARE LISTED AS FOLLOWS.
On a phoneThe order sheet, the Hand and the mailroom on a phone.
The Lorenzo Meadow page.
Lorenzo MeadowScript, Stitched, Sans Light and Regular, Ornaments; and the whole mailroom can be read on the meadow paper: ruled lines, the photo mount, the kraft envelope.
The mailroom page: the ways to choose a piece.
The mailroomPaintings, writing, and muses, filed: the latest piece, the whole index, articles, posts, artwork, one at random, by muse, by year; the type, the handwriting, the typewriter, the meadow, the paper.

Built from its own files, October 2026

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