Publisher: Insigne DesignInspired by the type elements of 17th century Dutch mapmaking, Boncaire Titling provides you with a historical yet daring search for your library. This addition from insigne ™ found its muse in a map of Curacao by Dutch cartographer Gerard Van Keulen, a member of the flourishing Van Keulen family from Amsterdam, who were taken part in the manufacture of maps for seafaring.
Much thanks on this task goes to The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, housed at the Boston Public Library. Through the center's compassion, I had the ability to see a variety of period maps personally and to meet with curators, who explained 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 peculiarities. For example, the long, exaggerated serifs, which provide the kinds a sense of stability, aid in the face's legibility—— mainly a by-product of the inscription technique that was utilized to create the metal plates for manufacturing these maps. In creating Boncaire Titling, I decided to capture these special tricks, welcoming the character of the engravings rather than removing them totally through "over-refining" the forms. The outcome is a stylish household with even more than seafaring potential.
This font style has a complete series of 6 weights, from thin to black. It also includes a wide range of OpenType alternates. All insigne ™ font styles are completely filled with OpenType features. Boncaire Titling is also geared up for intricate professional typography, including alternates, smaller titling caps and lots of alts, including "stabilized" capitals and lowercase letters. There are over 30 autoreplacing ligatures, and the face includes a variety of numeral sets, consisting of portions, old-style and lining figures with superiors and inferiors. OpenType capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe suite can maximize immediately changing ligatures and alternates. You can find these functions showed in the.pdf brochure.
Boncaire Titling likewise 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 terrific option for multi-lingual publications and packaging.
Maps are remarkable; they come with the promise of treasure to be discovered. Examining the map itself, too, you can find terrific wealth in the details so artfully condensed to that single paper—— details rollovered into this new insigne typeface. For your next job, explore the imagination potential in Boncaire Titling.
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