![]() ![]() ![]() I looked at Clarendon and British vernacular lettering (mainly from signs) for inspiration, and came up with a lowercase that does not even pretend to be an accurate or failthful revival, and has turned out to be very polarizing - people either love it or hate it. In 2001, they came back for a lowercase and 3 additional weights. In 1998, Cyrus Highsmith refined Miko's version, giving it a more complete character set for Red Herring magazine. A complete set of matrices for captials exists in the archives of Stephenson Blake, and Miko McGinty revived these as a project in Tobias Frere-Jones's type design class at Yale. Commissioned by Red Herring.Īround 1816, William Caslon IV printed the first know specimen of a sans serif typeface: W CASLON JUNR LETTERFOUNDER. ![]() Designed with Miko McGinty and Cyrus Highsmith. printing press fonts.Please note that, except where indicated, these typefaces are not available for licensing.Īmplitude Headline Benton Modern Caslon's Egyptian FF DIN Condensed Bureau Grotesque Guardian Houston Popular Poynter Agate Display Stag Vectora ThinĬUSTOM: CORPORATE DESIGN & OTHER UNFINISHED EARLY WORKĢ001. Note this font is no longer distributed as it was invented in the physical medium eras, i.e. I’d like to keep this font in mind while searching. It’s a simple sans-serif font and I think we can use this for inspiration. It doesn’t have anything to do with actual Egyptians, but it is a good font anyway. This font came with the word “Egyptian” only because of the title. A bad font can be spotted from ten miles away, because jagged edges and low resolutions stick out like a sore thumb on a hi-res display (like on an iPhone).Įnglish Egyptian is the first font I found. Clean means that I feel the font creator put real effort and time into it. ![]() In this search, I prioritize clean, thin, and ruined fonts. They did, however, hand me some free shape inspiration that offered some of what I was looking for. First SearchĪt first I stuck with “Egyptian” searches but they didn’t give me much of what I wanted. This research is in hopes of finding some usable fonts to use in the app. A totally professional journey in trying to find a good font. ![]()
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