Is the letterpress dead? Nope, it was just waiting for a designer, a Kickstarter project and some digital re-imagination.

John Bonadies was looking for $15,000 via Kickstarter to bring his prototype to market and has already passed $26,300. The money’s to be used to purchase vintage cuts and authentic wood type from foundries that closed in the 70′s and 80′s.

So what will the app do? As Bonadies describes it:

The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You will be able to create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications.

H/T: Laughing Squid.

Originally posted on the Future Journalism Project.

If Helvetica was a documentary for the high-brow set, College Humor’s Font Conference is humor um… for the highbrow set?

Fonts gather to decide whether Zapf Dingbats is worthy of membership.

From the archives we bring you College Humor founder Josh Abramson interviewed by Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick to discuss online media, viral video, and how and where traditional media companies are striking out trying to get clever in their attempts to lure in the likes of you and I.