Cercurius (was: Lars Törnqvist Typografi)

TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Sat May 18 02:21:09 EDT 2013

[Lars Törnqvist]

Born in Karlstad, Sweden, in 1952, Lars Törnqvist now lives in Stockholm. Lars Törnqvist's designed many typefaces, first at Lars Törnqvist Typografi, and then at Cercurius:

Dialekt Svi: a series of three phonetic fonts for Swedish dialects.
Dialekt Uni (2001): a huge Unicode phonetic font that includes the West European characters, the characters and diacritics of the Swedish dialect alphabet and most of the IPA characters.
Hnias (2004): a unicode runic font.
Remington Reseskrivmaskin (2000): a typewriter font.
DecCode (2000) and HexCode (2000): numerical fonts.
Pitmanita, a font containing the characters of Sir James Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet. This alphabet was used in many English schools in the 1960s.
Morsealfabetet, a Morse-Code font.
Korsstygn 1, a cross-stitch font.
Tant Brita (2006), Tant Ingrid (2006), Tant Ulla (2006), Tant Gertrud (2006), Tant Lilian (2006): stitching faces.
Knappast (2006), Endast (2006), Emedan (2006): letters in circles.
Karolinus Fraktur (2006): A slightly regularized digital version of a late Baroque Fraktur type, probably from the beginning of the 18th century, issued by the Norstedts type foundry in Stockholm in 56 point size as Sju petit fraktur nr 2.
Simpliciter Sans (2006), a rounded sans family in three styles, based on the standard round-pen ink lettering used on technical drawings in the middle of the 20th century.
Huruvida (2006). Varvid and Varvid Caps (2006, a bilined tubular caps stencil face).
Vibertus (2007): a didone headline face based on Gras Vibert (1840, Vibert, for the Didot typefoundry).