Here’s our Blackletter for Christmas, getting near to release. It’s a re-working of one of my designs from some years ago, with significantly expanded character set and vastly improved kerning. ‘1207’ has no particular significance…I just rearranged the digits of this year!
As foreshadowed, Shervington is going to be a ‘small capitals’ typeface…
A sort of English perpendicular gothic meets copperplate idea, I’m having fun with this one…
The key to getting a small capitals design to work seems to be preserving the stroke weights between the two sizes of capital letter forms. Shervington is a mono-weight font- though there are some actual variations in the weights of strokes to preserve the look of a uniform weight. It always intrigues me that such a measure is necessary. all adds to the challenge though.
Yes, I know attention is required to the kerning between ‘l-v’…
PJL
An earlier design from Greater Albion, revisted here with some new design work, and some earlier favourites.
More experiments with Algreve:
Duquesne Dark Woodcut:
