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Silver Sunbeam Display Font
About
The Silver Sunbeam Regular OTF is a hollow outlined shaded sans serifed display font that comes from Volume 1 of The New Blazing Star Press's "Printer's Type Case."
This font is ideal for museums, historical reenactors and living historians, graphic designers, and all lovers of historical typography. Create stunning book covers, band logos and album art, and other high-impact branding projects. Also perfect for game design, packaging design, magazine imagery, wedding invitations, and much more.
WHAT IS INCLUDED.
- Silver Sunbeam Regular OTF
- Unique Letterforms
- Works on PC & Mac
The lowercase features a slight variant of the uppercase alphabet.
This font DOES NOT include LOWERCASE or NUMBERS, as they did not exist in the original font. Only basic punctuation is included.
It was very common for 19th century typesetters to use other fonts to substitute punctuation and numerals missing from a particular typeface.
Since they were scanned directly from the pages of original 150 year-old documents, the letters show imperfections common to letterpress printing.
WHAT'S BEHIND THE NAME "THE SILVER SUNBEAM"?
The Silver Sunbeam is one of the seminal instructional guides to wetplate collodion photography, first published in 1864 by John Towler. This typeface was used in an advertisement for Charleston, S.C. photographer C.J. Quinby in 1858.
ABOUT THE NEW BLAZING STAR PRESS.
All of our Civil War-era historical fonts were copied entirely from ORIGINAL LETTERS scanned from type specimen, business directories, song sheets, broadsides, and advertisements, printed between 1848 and 1867 gathered from museums, private collections, and the Library of Congress. No cheap work done, but instead with a neatness not to be excelled in the Typographical Art.
We neither use humbug, false pretences, nor wear laurels won by competitors.
Our fonts have been used by major publishing houses, including Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Penguin Random House, Vintage, Yale University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, and Louisiana State University Press, as well as magazines such as the Civil War Times and Hallowed Ground.
Interested parties are respectfully invited to call and examine additional specimens at: www.newblazingstarpress.com
The proprietor is determined that this establishment shall not be surpassed by any other.
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- How do I contact support?
For questions about this product, message the Shop Owner via their shop profile. For all other questions, like licensing or billing, visit our Help Center.
- How can I unzip product files?
PC: To extract a single file or folder, double-click the compressed folder to open it. Then, drag the file or folder from the compressed folder to a new location. To extract the entire contents of the compressed folder, right-click the folder, click Extract All, and then follow the instructions.
Mac: Double click the .zip file, then search for the product folder or product file.
If you continue to have trouble, check out this help article for more tips.
- How do I install a font?
After you unzip your font product files, you will see .OTF or .TTF files. To install a font, just double click on the OTF or TTF file. For more information, check out our Font FAQ.
If you’re still having trouble installing the font, please contact the Shop Owner or Creative Market Support.
- What software do I need to use this font?
When a font is installed on your computer, it can be used with any program that allows you to create text. Fonts will work in Microsoft Office applications, Adobe software, and almost any other program with a text editor. You can learn more in our Help Center about OTF special features and installing your new font.
Note: As an exception, OpenType SVG fonts / color fonts require Photoshop CC 18.0+, Illustrator CC 22.0.0+, or InDesign CC 13.0.1+. To learn more about installing color fonts, check out this Color Font FAQ.
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