Punchcutters (when types had to be cut, and not just drawn), were working with steel, a strong metal they had to sculpt. They were subject to physical contingencies: each type cast was engraved separately...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 15, 2015
Punchcutters (when types had to be cut, and not just drawn), were working with steel, a strong metal they had to sculpt. They were subject to physical contingencies: each type cast was engraved separatly...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 14, 2015
Ecstrat is not a ‘serious’ typeface, but a contemporary version of ornamented ‘flowered’ letters of the eighteenth century, like those of Pierre-Simon Fournier le Jeune and Jacques-François Rosart. Only in capitals: its use is...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 2, 2015
Glovis is a ‘typewriter’ font — meaning monospaced (all characters use the same width) — and is also italic. But the italic style was originally created to take less space than roman: its letters...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 6, 2015
Goupil is based on baroque proportions letters. But, it can only be read through its thin shadows. So, Goupil is a light face, for refined and aerial titles. Titling face does not necessary mean...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 9, 2015
Long-time work of a revival of a baroque font of 1720, after Johann Rudolf Genath II, Stockmar was primarily designed with three italics (more or less geometrical, cursive, dynamic). This work and details can...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 12, 2015
Brett is a rounded bitmapped typeface, with strange serifs. With its elegant — even quite useless — small caps and its ‘old style’ ligatures (like ‘ct’ or ‘st’), it found itself half-way between ‘techno’...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 16, 2015
In the Textura blackletter, legibility is less important than texture. The Hans typeface is particularly dark, dense and harsh. It is an abrupt typeface, with no smooth outlines, close to the expressionist blackletters designed...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 10, 2015
Petit Serif is an interpretation (with Latin, Greek and Cyrillic versions) based on the lettering done at 55 Broadway, S.W.1, London, by Percy J. Delf Smith. It’s a sans serif presenting the classic proportions...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 2, 2015
Anacharsis is a modernist geometric sans serif typeface, following the path of Futura, Simplex or Semplicità. Its shapes and proportions are based on the Rotunda black letter, soft, rounded, with a ‘southerly’ feel, such...