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Weird and Wonderful
Clean and functional type gets all the attention in modern design. With a defiant nose-thumbing at that trend, here are oddities, personal favorites that come from the darkest, strangest corners of archaic typefounding — or from no historical model at all, but rather the creative minds of today’s most innovative font makers. These aren’t the faces you’d expect to see on an annual report. But how fantastic our world would be if you did!
The Venus type family is a historic hot metal face with left slanted weights that is used for the german cartographic map production. There are also special typefaces required like the Roemisch and Topografische Zahlentafel type family.
Claude Sans is the work of British designer Alan Meeks. The conservative roman weight is complemented by a more extravagant italic. The proportions are based on those of the original Garamond typeface of Claude Garamond, from whom this type gets its name. Claude Sans can be used alone or combined with Claude Sans italic and bold weights.
Alessandro Butti designed the Quirinus font, released in 1939. Quirinus is a headline font with a strong contrast in strokes.
Linotype 1997
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Alias 1995
ITC 1988
Elsner+Flake
ParaType
Alias 2012
Alias 2013
Elsner+Flake 1892
Elsner+Flake 1968
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