Here’s a test image of the second member of the Beeching family, Beeching Small Capitals. You’ll see we’ve been exploring the possibilities of Small Capital Ligatures…to rather pleasing effect we think.
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Beeching Small Capitals
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged Beeching Axe, font, legibility, lettering, ligatures, signage, Train station, typeface on June 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Another Idea
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged calligraphic, sans serif, typeface on June 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We were experimenting with the idea of a sort of Calligraphic Sans Serif…..
Gondolieri Released.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged font, design, typeface, victorian, poster, tuscan, advertising, decorative, display, clear, signage, clarity, didone, opentype, circus, MyFonts, Letter case, Gondolieri, Italianate architecture, Languages on June 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Signage and Legibility
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged Beeching Axe, font, opentype, serif, Train station, typeface on May 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Gondolieri Dispatched.
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged decorative, didone, display, family, fonts, tuscan, typeface on May 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve just sent Gondolieri to our resellers so it should be available soon. Meanwhile, here are a few more examples of it in action…
Nine Members of the Family
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged didone, display, family, font, forthcoming, pdf, sampler, typeface on May 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We’re nearly ready to release the Gondolieri family after just a few more last minute finishing touches. Gondolieri is a family of nine typefaces, based on an elaborated Didone design idea, and offers both display and text faces. It has something of an Italianate feel. In something of a new departure for us we’ve prepared a pdf booklet with samples of the family in use.
Sketches Worth Keeping…
Posted in Miscellany, tagged design, freedom, idea, ink, nib, paper, pen, sans, sketch, typeface on May 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our designer was rummaging through some old sketches the other day and found this interesting little item. We think this idea-a sort of subtly bifurcated Sans Serif -has a great deal of possibility and will be encouraging its further development when some of our present projects are a little nearer completion.
Testing,….Testing…..
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged advertising, font, typeface, typography, vintae on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s our latest combined sampler trying out Gondolieri Text alongside Gondolieri regular…
