Boncaire Titling was designed by Jeremy Dooley and published by insigne. Boncaire Titling contains 12 styles and family bundle choices. p >

Inspired by the type elements of 17th century Dutch mapmaking, Boncaire Titling provides you with a historical yet adventurous search for your library. This addition from insigne discovered its muse in a map of Curacao by Dutch cartographer Gerard Van Keulen, a member of the thriving Van Keulen family from Amsterdam, who were participated in the manufacture of maps for seafaring.

Much thanks on this task goes to The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, housed at the Boston Town Library. Through the center's kindness, I had the ability to view a number of period maps in person and to meet curators, who described more about the Van Keulen family and the way maps of the period were created.

While I studied the maps, I narrowed in on some of the original type's special tricks. For example, the long, exaggerated serifs, which provide the types a sense of stability, aid in the face's legibility-- mostly a byproduct of the engraving technique that was used to develop the metal plates for making these maps. In producing Boncaire Titling, I chose to capture these distinct peculiarities, accepting the character of the inscriptions rather than removing them totally through "over-refining " the forms. The outcome is a sophisticated household with far more than seafaring potential.

This font style has a full range of six weights, from thin to black. It also includes a variety of OpenType alternates. All insigne fonts are fully filled with OpenType features. Boncaire Titling is likewise equipped for complex expert typography, including alternates, smaller titling caps and lots of alts, consisting of "stabilized " capitals and lowercase letters. There are over 30 autoreplacing ligatures, and the face includes a number of character sets, consisting of fractions, old-style and lining figures with superiors and inferiors. OpenType capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe suite can maximize automatically replacing ligatures and alternates. You can find these functions demonstrated in the.pdf brochure.

Boncaire Entitling also consists of the glyphs to support a wide variety of languages, consisting of Central, Eastern and Western European languages. In all, Boncaire Titling supports over 40 languages that use the prolonged Latin script, making the new addition a fantastic option for multi-lingual publications and packaging.

Maps are interesting; they come with the guarantee of treasure to be discovered. Taking a look at the map itself, too, you can discover terrific wealth in the information so artfully condensed to that single notepad-- information brought over into this brand-new insigne typeface. For your next task, check out the imagination potential in Boncaire Titling.

Font Family:
· Boncaire Titling Thin
· Boncaire Titling Thin Italic
· Boncaire Titling Light
· Boncaire Titling Light Italic
· Boncaire Titling Regular
· Boncaire Titling Regular Italic
· Boncaire Titling Medium
· Boncaire Titling Medium Italic
· Boncaire Titling Bold
· Boncaire Titling Bold Italic
· Boncaire Titling Black
· Boncaire Titling Black Italic

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