It was consisted of the names of the leading brass in wartime Bomber Command, namely Dowding, Harris, Newall, Tedder, Website and Douglas. The Quick was to cut the letters in bronze and gild them. Instead, they were cut in perspex and gilded.
To sit comfortably within the long and narrow vertical area readily available below the chapel's stained glass window, extended letterforms were used with many vertical serifs omitted and with lengthened horizontal serifs.
Some twenty years later on, the missing out on upper-case letters were accumulated with the lowercase letters and Frieze, the font, was born. Consequently, extra weights and styles were added to produce a font style family of six styles.
Font Family:
· Frieze Light
· Frieze Light Italic
· Frieze Roman
· Frieze Italic
· Frieze Bold
· Frieze Bold Italic
Tags: display, extended, legible, original, serif