AJ Quadrata by Adam Jagosz 2021-07-06

anne · Jul 6, 2021

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AJ Quadrata by Adam Jagosz - The default cut is a modern take on textura quadrata that can be useful for today and tomorrow.

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Once, Blackletter was a calligraphy style. Full of ligatures, with letters bumping into each other to create an unapologetic picket-fence pattern. Some even claimed that the regularity improved legibility! But then Blackletter was cast into metal, and only a handful of established ligatures survived, while most interletter connections were disentangled. Everyone since followed suit, and hundreds of years later, digital Blackletter fonts were modelled mostly...