APF Lagoon Routine was created by Carolyn Puzzovio and published by Pomegranate. APF Lagoon Regular consists of 1 design. p > In 2007-8, Carolyn Puzzovio developed this OpenType typeface: Lagoon which is based upon an Armenian model from the Mechitarist monastery, Venice, 1810. This job was supported by a grant from the AHRC (Arts & & Humanities Research Council, UK) and won a very first reward in the Granshan 08 type style competition.

Oſten, Armenian digital types are created to match the forms of Latin type characters and 'Latinized', by uprighting the forms; truncating ascenders and descenders and raising the x-height-- however in this case the Latin characters in the OpenType font have been designed to mix in with the traditional Armenian

proportions which are based on cursive types-- likewise including some of the eccentric shapes from the original model. Faithfully following the initial developed troubles of 'clashing' characters, especially those with long descenders, so the font style includes over 100 alternative characters in the Armenian part, which will generally replace instantly where needed. The sloping lower case characters and upright capitals are conventional in Armenian-- capitals are utilized less in the Armenian language.

Three brand-new characters for the Armenian unicode range are consisted of: the Armenian dram (currency) symbol; the eternity symbol; and the index number sign. This typeface which will be among the first OpenType fonts to include these freshly unicoded characters.

Font Family: APF Lagoon

Tags: armenian, oblique, sans serif, slanted, stencil, stressed