Alison Haigh designed Perfin in 2008. Perfins or 'Perforated Initials' first appeared on postage stamps in 1868. Companies perforated text and symbols into their stamps to protect them from theft. The use of perforations meant there was no need to overprint onto the stamp image. Perfin was created based on the letterforms seen on these stamps, and is a clear, versatile display typeface.

We designed a 12pg Specimen Catalogue to document the usage and stylistic properties of the typeface. We used the typeface as it was originally intended on the front and back cover by hand punching the name of the font (Fig. 1) and the foundry (Fig. 6) in which it was released under. We also referenced the stamps on which the typeface originally appeared. This was a four colour risograph spread in the middle of the catalogue (Fig. 4).