TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Thu Aug 15 18:07:05 EDT 2024
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Type designer from Massachusetts who made Narcissus Roman (1995, Font Bureau), a strong bold inline titling typeface with upper and lower case characters---in its genre, one of the best typefaces on earth. He also designed the ultra-condensed typeface Barcode (1994, Font Bureau). Font Bureau writes about Narcissus: In 1921, Walter Tiemann designed Narcissus for Klingspor after a suave set of ornamental inline capitals first cut by Simon Pierre Fournier about 1745. In 1925, Mergenthaler Linotype reproduced Tiemann's type, calling it Narciss. The elegance of Fournier's Louis XVI design created a vogue in late eighteenth-century Paris; Narciss and Narcissus sparked a revival in the twenties. Brian Lucid's cut reflects the urbane air of a master. |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |