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Classic Tattoo + Mansory
Lets Classic Tattoo own the focal silhouette while handling secondary copy, sizing and subheads cleanly.
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Decorative tattoo-style capitals with fine internal stripes
Classic Tattoo
Classic Tattoo sets capitals in the old flash style: a heavy outline, a flat shadow on one side, and a light interior line that makes each letter look filled with ink and then outlined again.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Sturdy stroke walls and open counters weed cleanly on adhesive vinyl, HTV apparel film, and cut cardstock.
Plotter & output verdictEasy-Weed Vinyl & Print Ready
Recommended minimum scale0.75 in+ cap height
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaWedding Suites · Foil Envelopes · Boutique Logos
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Classic Tattoo.
CLASSIC TATTOO is set on a shallow curve across the top of the card in a black outline with a white fill and a pale inner line, the letters wide and slightly irregular the way a hand-painted flash sheet is. Beneath the arc a drawn scene fills the middle: a tattooed woman and an artist at work, a pair of swallows in the corners, and two banner ribbons carrying a year. Under that, two lines of the same lettering spell out the style in smaller capitals, and the whole card sits inside a rough hand-drawn border that looks like a page from a sketchbook. The face is built on a slab skeleton with clipped corners, which keeps it readable while the outline and inner line do the decorating. It suits tattoo studios, barber shops, motorcycle clubs and any poster that wants a vintage flash look.
Decorative tattoo-style capitals with fine internal stripes
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Classic Tattoo with grounded secondary typography.
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Classic Tattoo + Things
Grounds bold display lettering with classic typographic authority on posters, badges and apparel.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Classic Tattoo’s stroke geometry.
Sign for a tattoo studio
The lettering is the studio's own visual language, so a sign in this face reads as an authentic shopfront instead of a borrowed style.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 900 by 350 mm sign: set the studio name at 120 pt on one row, keep 26 mm of clear ground beneath before the street number at 18 pt, and hold 30 mm at each end so the outlined edges stay inside the panel.
Pre-production check
The inner line disappears when a sign is routed; print one panel with the real process and check before the second copy.
Poster for a flash sheet night
The style turns a poster into something a customer would take home, and the outlined letters hold up against a dark background without extra decoration.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 420 by 594 mm poster: set the event title at 110 pt on a shallow arc, keep 30 mm of clear ground beneath before the date at 14 pt, and hold 28 mm of margin so the arc does not touch the poster edge.
Pre-production check
Curved setting needs manual spacing; print one poster and check the gaps between letters at the ends of the arc before the run.
Cover for a subculture magazine
The flash look marks the issue as part of a scene, and the heavy outline keeps a long cover line readable at newsstand size where a light face would break up.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 210 by 297 mm cover: set the cover line at 74 pt across two rows, keep 22 mm of clear ground beneath before the issue number at 10 pt, and hold 16 mm from the outlined edge to the trim on all sides.
Pre-production check
Two-line outlines blur when the cover is printed small; print one copy at the final size and check the inner line before the run.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Decorative · Decorative tattoo-style capitals with fine internal stripes
- Foundry / creator
- Blankids Studio
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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