Mary Bacon

With its animated contours, and set in an appropriate size, the Garamond Rough typeface attempts to simulate printed hot metal typesetting.

Its roughened edges make it appear softer and less crisp, and, thus, takes the harshness out of the type image.

The size of the offered type complement as well as the number of its affiliated symbols makes it ideal for differentiated text setting.

Furthermore, its display types make surprising visual accents possible. More The origins of the design of Garamond Rough go back to the middle of the 16th century.

They are ascribed to Claude Garamond who was one of the first typographers who designed typefaces specifically for the setting of books.

During the course of the past centuries and decades, many different variations and new design interpretations of the Garamond typeface were developed to accommodate the most diverse typesetting and printing practices in many different countries.

As such, todays designers can take advantage of a comprehensive digital repertoire for text and display applications.

Translation Inga Wennik

Pliego is a textface designed to offer a comfortable continuous reading, with humanist proportions, an even texture, and informal calligraphic details noticeable only at big sizes, that gives it a contemporary feeling.

Pliego has been named after Pliegos de Cordel, the Spanish word for the popular books that were common during the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries.

These were rough, cheap books that basically consisted in a folded sheet attached to a string, hence the name.

Their content was varied, from popular tales to ballads and songs, but also crimes and mysteries.

They were cheaply made, roughly printed and bound. The name Pliego evokes the idea of a rough look, angular edges, informal taste, but classical look.

More To cover todays needs, Pliego includes five weights with matching italics.

Designed and engineered for continuous reading, the Book, Regular and Medium weights will perform at their best under 14 points.

However, dont be scared to use for headlines and titles: because of its quirky details and calligraphic flavour, Pliegos personality is accentuated when enlarged.

With an extensive Latin character set, Pliego covers a wide amount of Latin-based languages, including Latin Plus encoding and Vietnamese support.