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Also known as Doves Press Fount of Type and Doves Roman

Design of letters inspired by 15th century Venetian typefaces

Designed to handle massive bodies of text in a clean and ordered way, and designed to look pleasing without detracting attention away from the text

Signature typeface of the Doves Press, est. 1900

After the Press' dissolution, the matrices and punches of the Doves Type was famously thrown into the River Thames on Good Friday, 21st March 1913, by one of the press' founders (T. J. Cobden Sanderson).

Many attempts of digitally reviving the font based on books set in Doves Type.

In 2013, a diving expedition in the River Thames was organised by London designer, Robert Green, to revive the punches and matrices of the Doves Type. They were then used as templates to create a digitised version of the font

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Research about the Doves Type and the Doves Press

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Research about the Doves Type and the Doves Press

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- Zine resembles a book bound by
- Printed with a combination of digital print and hand printing
- Use of 3D-printed stamps for the titles
- As an homage to the Doves Press' printing of literature, the collection of articles to be written in the style of literature (fiction prose, playscripts, poems)

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Started as the Doves Bindery in 1893 as a partnership by the bookbinder T. J. Cobden Sanderson, and the printer Emery Walker

Doves Press officially established in 1900

Operated 16 years, from 1900 to 1913

Printed works of English literature. Most well-known for the Doves Press edition of the King James Bible. Also printed the works of:

William Shakespeare (sonnets, "Hamlet", "Anthony and Cleopatra", "Venus and Adonis", "Julius Caesar"),

Christopher Marlowe ("Doctor Faustus")

John Milton ("Paradise Lost")

Percy Shelley

John Keats

Also printed German literature

1909, dissolution of Sanderson and Walker's partnership, with bitter disputes over the Doves Type's ownership. The partnership dissolution agreement declared Walker to be the rightful owner of the typeface

Because of this, T. J. Cobden Sanderson began destroying the Doves Type by throwing the matrices and punches into the River Thames over the course of several years