Good typeface for wooden/rubber stamps?
Hello all,
I’ve been tasked with developing a series of stamps for our studio to personalize otherwise anonymous business cards (we have many and they were expensive, I gather). Also would love here opinions on the pros cons of rubber/wood, and ink (think pads at staples) versus something perhaps more paint-ish.
thanks much!
12.May.2008 11.45am
Howdy,
In retrospect, that was a little vague - which may have something to do with the fact that I’m quite inexperienced in the finer art of stamping.
I’m thinking I want to embrace the unpredictability of stampage, as some of our employees relative stampage techniques may, in fact, be quite garbage.
Is it better to have a thinner face or a heavier one for better distribution? Is one easier to handle than the other?
Does a goofy/ornate handle improve stampage in any way?
12.May.2008 11.59am
I’m not sure ’stampage’ is a word.
I’d go down to the arts and crafts/scrapbooking store and buy random stamps and try them out.
14.May.2008 6.40am
I’m not sure ’stampage’ is a word.
@darrell: oh, I dunno, see OED online:
1910 Cal. Close Rolls an. 1365, 113, 1,000 marks every year to be taken of the issue of the stampage of tin in Cornwall.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 118/2 No copy was obtained [of the rock inscription] until October 1838, when the traveller Masson..made a calico stampage and an eye copy.
...there was a 3rd definition, but the 2nd one here approaches the usage in question, I suppose...
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