15/16th Century Type
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- nowherehead
I'm about to start work on an identity for a bar that's built on the site of a 15th Century tower.
Short of going for a full on Gutenberg style, black letter face, can anyone recommend any very old serif fonts or re-drawings of old type that might capture that era?
Thanks in advance
- Baskerville0
You could use something like Garamond, the Adobe version of which is based on Claude Garamond's type from the early 15thC (1480-1561)
But as I see you are from the UK and Garamond is French you could look at using a type based on William Caxton's type designs (the english Gutenberg (1421-1491).
Linotype's Caxton is pretty nice and historically accurate:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/lin…I love how 600 years later we are still using pretty much the same type designs.
- ********0
Hand Block printed?
Nice update on your site by the way. Apart from putting all your old stuff in a pdf.
- nowherehead0
Good call with Garamond, Bask: I'd forgotten it was French which is actually ideal: the tower was built by a Frenchman. It's a lovely font too, so no wonder it's stood the test!
Skt: pleased you like the updates, and I know the PDF isn't ideal, I'm working on a better way of presenting my archive as we speak.