Designer: Alejandro
PaulA couple of strong caps drawn by Albert Du Bois for the 1906 Henderson Sign Painter book began me in the instructions of looking at how sign painters approached pieces after the commercial transformation. The normal occurred from there. My workout in the early lettering roots of what ultimately ended up being the meaning of geometric typography wound up having a life of its own. The majuscules caused minuscules, one idiosyncratic vibrant weight led to 6 more, and uprights resulted in italics. What was kind-of-interesting in the early twentieth century persuaded me to make it intriguing enough a century later on. This of course suggested alternates, swashes, the basic luggage that keeps calling my name.
Henderson Slab is a family of 7 weights plus italics, all loaded with open features and extended Latin language support. Part of this household's appeal is its protection of nearly the entire of the piece serif through the last 100 years-- the basis is the manual, humanist origins, the swashed kinds come right out of the phototypesetting period, and the alternates and mostly contemporary constructs of modern concepts. The result is a set with the capability to work in modern areas, from business to editorial, in text or screen, while both winking and nodding at the roots of what is now considered a geometric endeavor.
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