Midshipman
Midshipman is sampled from the handwriting of John M. Funck, Master’s Mate on the U.S.S. Constitution. He was in charge of keeping the frigate’s Watch and Quarter Bill from 1808 to 1810; a detailed list of all crew and their stations in sailing and during combat. This document, made avaible by The Internet Archive, was the primary source for this typeface.
Midshipman is a connected script that also includes initial forms for lowercase words. It also includes some archai features which come directly from the source material, including an initial ‘long s’ and the lack of distinction between Capitals ‘I’ and ‘J.’
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EGGS, Flamig Farm
Flamig Farm in West Simsbury, Connecticut, is famous for their produce, friendly farm animals, as well as an immense artpiece on their barn that features an all caps “EGGS,” reversed. The conspicous, columnar, capitals persist due to the clever design choice to mirror the word. This allows it to be an artpiece, rather than a road sign with its own legal requirements.
This font pays homage to that locally historic design choice by including a reversed style to recreate the iconic look, alongside an unreversed style for normal text.
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Numis
Numis was born out of a coin collecting hobby. A quick survey of coins from the late medieval to modern periods to today led to this unicase design. The rounded corners and smoothed edges are meant to evoke a the slightly worn letterfaces found on old coins; a process that tends to bolden the text before being rubbed away completely.
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Jorge Mano
Jorge Mano is inspired by the Argentine poet and author Jorge Luis Borges and the very unique hand he developed in the late 1920’s. ‘Su letra de insecto,’ as he called it, was a tight, but charactistically legible, print hand with extreme ascenders and descenders. According to Celeste Martin it was his 3rd distinct style and last before his vision began to deteriorate.
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Merganser
Merganser is a Typeface intended for text and copy and was inspired to serve the avid community of Birders. Birders and birding material historically have a lot to say. Merganser serves that tendency because its designed legible at small scales. The Natural world also inspires the slightly humanist strokes of Merganser.
Merganser was created as part of the Type@Cooper winter certificate in Type Design.
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