Modern Grotesque Body
Original Vintage + Mansory
Creates crisp high-hierarchy contrast beneath Original Vintage headlines across menus, websites and labels.
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Tall angular slabs covered by diagonal scratches
Original Vintage
Original Vintage uses tall white slab capitals with clipped corners and dense diagonal cuts. The scratch direction crosses both rows with a consistent angle, producing a striated surface rather than scattered chip damage, while the black charcoal background stays separate from the letter texture.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Fine grain and micro-texture excel in 300 DPI print, sublimation, and screen print rather than small vinyl weeding.
Plotter & output verdictPrint, DTF & Sublimation First
Recommended minimum scalePrint any scale · Vinyl 2.2 in+
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 Original Vintage.
The stems stay tall, the corners clip, the feet stay square and the wear runs in one direction. That consistent scratch angle is the character: the letters look planed rather than chipped, which is why the two rows share the same grain. Fine diagonal gaps need a large plain setting, so keep 40 pt as the floor, avoid placing them over texture and check the numerals and punctuation your layout actually uses before promising a full retro system. The diagonal gaps are the fragile cut: below 30 pt they read as dirt on the plate, so keep 40 pt and set the word on a plain ground rather than over texture.
Tall angular slabs covered by diagonal scratches
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Original Vintage with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Original Vintage + Autography
Adds a warm human signature touch for 1-to-3-word callouts without competing against structured serif capitals.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Original Vintage’s stroke geometry.
Label for a workwear brand
The striated slabs give a garment label grit, and the tall forms hold a two-word name at 22 pt on a 60 by 40 mm label, where the diagonal cuts stay visible in white on a dark ground.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 60 by 40 mm woven label: set the name at 22 pt on one row, keep 9 mm of clear ground beneath before the size at 6 pt, and keep the label dark so the pale cuts read as grain rather than dirt.
Pre-production check
Woven labels soften thin diagonal cuts; check a woven sample and hold the name at 20 pt or above.
Heading for a heritage feature
The planed slabs set a period heading, and the tall caps hold a two-word title at 50 pt on a page, where the single scratch direction keeps the row coherent.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 210 mm page: set the heading at 50 pt on one row, keep 20 mm of clear ground beneath before the standfirst at 10 pt, and keep the header on a flat ground so the diagonal cuts stay legible.
Pre-production check
Two scratched rows stacked look like a printing fault; check the layout and keep only the heading in this face.
Sign for a barn market
The angular slabs read on a barn sign, and the clipped corners hold a short name at 56 mm on a painted board, where the striation survives at outdoor scale.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Paint a 700 by 350 mm board: set the sign at 56 mm on one row, keep 24 mm of clear ground beneath before the dates at 15 pt, and keep 26 mm of border so the clipped corners are not trimmed by the frame.
Pre-production check
Diagonal cuts painted by hand drift off angle; check the mask artwork and keep one consistent direction.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Slab Serif · Tall angular slabs covered by diagonal scratches
- Foundry / creator
- Anto (7NTypes)
- Language support
- Multilingual character support stated by creator
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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