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The nine member Gondolieri family is now available for purchase from Myfonts and Fontspring.

The design of Gondolieri has its origins in an experiment to combine aspects of Didone and Tuscan typefaces. The result has a continental ‘Italianate’ feel. If you wonder what lies behind the name, just look at the lower case ‘f’…definite overtones of a Venetian Gondola here, and throughout the design. Gondolieri is offered in regular and bold weights, as well as a simplified form for smaller text use. All of these are available in three widths. The Gondolieri family has a lovely Didone, ‘Belle Epoch’ feel for use in design, posters, book covers and so forth. An extensive range of Opentype features, including ligatures and terminal forms is included in the regular and bold faces.

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We’ve referred to our ‘Beeching’ project before, a small family to be based on Railway Station nameboards, yielding a nicely legible set of typefaces ideal for use in large scale signage. We think this design provides a clear demonstration that old fashioned details, such as serifs and ligatures serve to enhance legibility.

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Here’s some of the latest progress on Gondolieri…

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Merrivale is an ideal example of the benefits of keeping ones eyes open- it was inspired by the gilt-finished raised lettering on a late Victorian shopsign in Melbourne, Australia.

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Here’s an illustration of terminal letter forms developed for our forthcoming release Secombe. The joys of Opentype!

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Alfrere Sans has now released on Myfonts and Fontspring. Alfrere Sans is a clean Sans Serif display family inspired by a well-known 1950s television caption.  The family of seven faces have been designed for independent use, but they also have an extra feature.  All faces have identical metrics and can be overlaid with each other, [...]

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Here’s another sampling of Merrivale-we’re thinking of designating the Merrivale faces by number…Merrivale No.1 and so forth-this time we’ve been experiementing with an extensive range of Opentype features to make this a really characterful face. Here’s a sampling of the results to date…

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Birmingham New Street is getting close to release (when it will release along with the ‘Stout’ family).  It is going to be a typeface with extensive Opentype features,offering both contextual and stylistic alternates.  Here’s a sampling of some examples: and here’s a piece of text designed to give you an impression of Birmingham New Street [...]

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