Fontaine Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Fontaine Travel plans journeys from Alexandria, Virginia. Founder Heidi Parsont built the agency on a life spent across three continents and travel through nearly sixty countries, and that biography runs straight into the work: custom itineraries shaped to the traveler, from multigenerational family trips to all-inclusive escapes. The site promises “experiences that enrich, inspire and connect” and asks a single thing of the client, which is to dream.
We chose it for the wordmark. Bold condensed capitals on one line, FONTAINE in leaf green and TRAVEL in a pale sky blue, the letter edges thick and slightly irregular, as if someone had cut them by hand. Edges like that are what a stamping die produces on its best day. Most marks we study need persuading before they will live in leather; this one walked in already dressed for it.
The mark, as found
Pressed lengthwise
Forest green meets FONTAINE exactly, and turquoise, the nearest hide we keep to that sky tone, presses TRAVEL as a pale sea-blue. The blue gave us pause, honestly; it sits a shade deeper than the screen shows, and after a while we let it. Leather negotiates. Black takes the gold.
Fontaine means fountain
The name did the drafting for us. Fontaine is French for fountain, so we drew one, two tiers of it, and let three dashed arcs rise from the upper bowl and resolve into small airplanes headed elsewhere. One source sends its routes outward, with FONTAINE TRAVEL set beneath. A founder who has lived on three continents will recognize the diagram.
We made this out of love. Leatherius Woodman is on a mission to create and share artifacts of beauty, craft and love – this study is one of them, and we hope the feeling is mutual. Every image is a render – how we prototype before cutting a die.
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