Figgins Antique was designed by Vincent Figgins and released by HiH. Figgins Antique includes 1 style. p >" Hey, look at me!" cried the new advertising typefaces. With the nineteenth century and the commercial revolution came an esthetic revolution in type design. Brash, loud, fat screen faces elbowed their method into the crowd of book deals with, requiring attention. Those who admired standard book types harumphed and complained. Robert Thorne had fired the opening round with his Fatface. With the cutting of Figgins Antique, the fight was well and truly joined. Task printing came into its own and it looked like everything altered. The world of printing had actually been turned upside down and the gentile book-type aficionados recoiled in scary much as the rural landed gentry recoiled at the upstart middle class storekeepers and manufacturers. William Savage, approvingly priced estimate by Daniel Berkeley Updike over a hundred years later on, explained the new display screen faces as "a barbarous extreme." These were interesting times.

According to Geoffrey Dowding in his An Intro To The History Of Printing Types, "The types which we understand by the name of Egyptian were first shown by Vincent Figgins in his specimen book of 1815, under the name Antique." Of course, dating the design is not rather as easy as that. Nicolete Gray explains that Figgins used the same "1815" title page on his specimen books from 1815 to 1821, adding pages as needed without regard to archival issues. As a result, there are different versions of the 1815 specimen book. In those copies that include the brand-new Antique, that particular specimen is printed on paper with an 1817 watermark. The design is dated by the 1817 watermark rather than the 1815 title page.

Figgins Antique ML is an all-cap font. This typeface is for vibrant declarations. Do not waste it on wimpy whispers of hesitant whimsies. And please don't utilize it for extended text-- it will just provide somebody a headache. Think boldly. Utilize it boldly. Set it tight. Proceed and run the serifs together. Solid and stolid, this face is really, very English.

FIGGINS ANTIQIE ML represents a major extension of the original release, with the following changes:

1. Included glyphs for the 1250 Central Europe, the 1252 Turkish and the 1257 Baltic Code Pages. Added glyphs to total standard 1252 Western Europe Code Page. Unique glyphs transferred and appointed Unicode codepoints, some in Personal Usage area. Total of 331 glyphs.

2. Added OpenType GSUB layout features: liga and pnum.

3. Included 86 kerning pairs.

4. Modified vertical metrics for improved cross-platform line spacing.

5. Redesigned mathamatical operators.

6. Included of both tabular (standard) & & proportional numbers (optional).

7. Refined different glyph describes.

Font Family: Figgins Antique

Tags: 1800s, all caps, caps only, english, heavy, slab-serif, solid