Typographica is a review of typefaces and type books, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design. Edited by Stephen Coles, also of Fonts In Use and The Mid-Century Modernist.
Founded in 2002 by Joshua Lurie-Terrell. Relaunched in 2009 by Coles and Chris Hamamoto.
Set in Anchor by Eric Olson, FF Dagny by Örjan Nordling and Göran Söderström, FF Quadraat by Fred Smeijers, and Lucida Sans/Grande by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes.
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Font-o-Rama Herzchen
I’m a sucker for upright italics, and I was especially pleased to find German type designer Nina David’s relatively new release Herzchen (Deutsch for “sweetheart”). Various italic-esque features and a nice range of roman and italic (moment of type-nerd zen: an italic version of an upright italic!) ligatures and some unique ornaments round it out. Good work, Font-o-Rama!
Note: I’ve been made aware that Nina’s work is inspired by Jean François Porchez‘s excellent Parisine, which has a much larger character set, including a bevy of beautiful capital and lower-case alternates and some very creative ligatures.
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