BACELAR & İRMAO — All-caps (Majuscules) 'Art Deco' display sans
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Revival of the Art-Deco lettering seen on the medical supply store sign of
"Bacelar & Irmao, Lda."— Porto, Portugal.
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I tried to keep it as faithful to the original as I could without compromising too much.
But in order to make them fit a complete typeface when doing these kind of revivals from lettering that were never intended to be a complete 'A-Z'-alphabet can sometimes be tricky not to have certain aspects get lost or slightly modified. As was also the case in this effort...
One of those specific changes for example was with the 'Capital A with tilde'.
In the original store sign the style of the tilde is fairly novel and unique. And seen in that particular situation used 'as is', its pretty self-explanatory of course, and works just fine. But viewed in isolation it is hardly recognizable as a tilde. Not to mention if it was part of a complete typeface that includes multiple accented letters. In that case I thinks it is very confusing and rather useless when it has to resamble the tilde. To overcome this issue I created a new capital letter 'A' with a more traditional and better recognizable tilde.
But obviously I had to somehow preserve that original and quirky novelty as well. So I included it into the location for the capital letter 'A' with ring above. I think it suits that spot much better to be honest. So in the end nothing really got compromised.
I hope you like it
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I love the look of this style. The name is self explanatory ;) if you know French.........
UC, numerals and some symbols have one line thicker than the others, LC only has the thinner lines. LC can be used on its own if even thickness of lines is desired but it is 3 px shorter than UC which will show clearly when using Basic Latin LC in combination with Hebrew, numerals, some symbols and some punctuation marks. Cyrillic and Hebrew added. Latin1 will come eventually ;)
This font was designed around the theme word Elegant. I was inspired to create a typeface that was ornate and palatial; it is a ode to Baroque design.
I have tried to emulate columns for the body of the font and created a crowned frieze for some of the letters with decorative toppers for the remaining characters.
See more:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2231576/circ-14
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1721148/lr-syche
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/851715/dolphin_sans_3
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/787470/fs_semi_circle
Art deco in 2x2 grid size
I orginally plan to release a kerned version made with FontForge along side, but something, I've forgotten what, was frustrating.
Today, November 2020, I think I can just release this anyway.
I hope you enjoy, I want to come back designing, I've been busy learning to conlang recently.
LENA (Solid) - Geometric retro display type family
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This is a part of the typeface family called 'LENA'.
A font family that comes in 3 different style varriations: Inline Solid, & Text
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Here you can find the rest of this family:
LENA (Text)
LENA (Inline)
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This is a clone of STF_LENA_(Inline)