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XYZ Type · Jesse Ragan · 2017
An all-caps display face drawn from hand-carved flexo lettering found on a New York shipping box, available in Regular and Stencil cuts.
About
Jesse Ragan traced the source material back to a cardboard shipping box printed from an anonymous hand-carved flexo plate, preserving the bulges, pinches and rough edges of the original marks. The Regular cut carries a blocky industrial rhythm that reads as eccentric in isolation but settles into texture at length; the Stencil variant applies a network of breaks that feel simultaneously practical and absurd. Named a Typographica favourite of 2017.
Classification
An all-caps display typeface drawn from hand-carved flexo lettering on a shipping box, with a stencil variant; the industrial, blocky, uppercase-only construction firmly places it in the display category with stencil subcategory.