onceGuilded 1918

Spanning from the Golden Age of Piracy in the 1700s to the 1800s formal years of stock certificates and hand lettered currency notes, onceGuilded1918 is a victorian Font, a steampunk visage, a letterform that ebbs and flows through time. A stalwart of the Gilded Age and the Guilds that signified authoritative centers of creation information sources, a key style for official documents, a look that was hand drawn or inked via letterpress. The Gilded Age was a time that huge fortunes were made and lost and kept to this day . The height of the Gilded Age: 1870-1900. It continues after this but the public displays of opulence are ended by the realities of the WW1 era: 1914-1921. And soonceGuilded visuals are golden but faded, lasting but tarnished, forgotten but never truly lost as the appreciation of steampunk never goes away. After all, people will always have a hope of finding, creating, or innovating something. onceGuilded makes us think of a return to well-made, thoughtful things. For such a time as this.