Mary Bacon

Zierde is a take on early advertising, small-copy grotesks of the late 19th/early 20th century, and is largely inspired by Miller & Richards own range of Grotesques.

More importantly, Zierde is accompanied by a large set of ornaments (+200) which hark back to the look-and-feel of the early-modernist arts and crafts movement.

The ornaments in, and presentation of, Zierde owe much credit to J.G Schelter & Gieseckes 1913 type specimen book Die Zierde. The strong functional uppercase sans-serifs alongside luscious, beautiful patterns in Die Zierde make for beautiful combinations.

This early-modernist use of grotesk alongside ornament looks bizarre in the eyes of us used to seeing sans-serifs in more formal, sterile settings.

The face itself retains some historical flourishes such as the eccentric leaning angle of the italics, the long cross-bar on the G, the gammy-leg of the R, a strange ampersand and some irregular terminals across the weights.

Zierde is display face meant for headlines, titles, short-copy, labels and logos.

It comes in caps and small caps, Latin and Cyrillic.

KD Hachure is a display, geometric font with layering possibilities. Combine the two layers to achieve different color combinations or use them separately to achieve a completely different look.

Kerning is optimized so that all latin letters are connected. With the default leading 120%, descenders connect with the top of accents. Set the leading to 100% manually if you want to connect descenders with the top of uppercase or ascender letters.

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.

Useful links: TT Smalls PDF Type Specimen TT Smalls graphic presentation at Behance TT Smalls is a geometric sans serif created for use in video clips and for video production.

The main feature of the font family is the big difference between the uppercase and lowercase characters, in which we intentionally diminish the x-height.

At the same time, in order for signs to be readable and balanced, the font uses pronounced visual compensators and a large letter spacing.

More In the typeface there is a decorative set of alternative characters that covers the uppercase Latin alphabet, uppercase Cyrillic alphabet, and standard figures.

As the thickness of the strokes decreases, the number of layer lines in the design of the letter decreases.

For example, in the Black weight, the design in an alternative decorative set consists of 4 layers-lines, and in Thin already only of one line.

In order to simplify the access to this special set, we have programmed it for the SMCP (small caps) feature.

You just need to turn it on. Especially for video production we have prepared a set of particular catchwords that are included in each font, and whose height corresponds to the x-height of the lowercase sign.

For catchwords output, you need to type a special combination of characters. For example, to get the AKA catchword, you need to type one of the following combinations: a+k+a, or A+K+A, or a_k_a, or A_K_A.

Using any of these combinations will make the catchword appear. It is important to note that for successful use of catchwords, the feature calt (contextual alternates) must be permanently turned on.

The TT Smalls font family consists of 18 fonts: 9 weights and 9 italics.

The family has a set of stylistic alternatives, which make the typeface a bit more humanist when turned on.

TT Smalls features 16 ligatures, including several Cyrillic, old-style figures, a set of navigational arrows.

In addition, TT Smalls supports a large number of other useful OpenType features such as case, ordn, sups, sinf, dnom, numr, onum, tnum, pnum, calt, frac.

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