Publisher: Canada TypeLapis was Jim Rimmer's endeavor into a territory he had actually earlier explored with his Lancelot and Fellowship deals with. This time he remained a lot longer, dug quite deep, and had a lot of enjoyable therein. The end result is the kind of mosaic of influences only a person like Jim might think about, gather, handle and apply in such a way that ultimately makes sense and works as a type family.
On the surface Lapis appears like something that can be billed as what Jim would have called an "advertising text face". However under the hood, it's a whole other story. On top of the calligraphic, nib-driven base Jim typically employed in his faces, Lapis shows plenty of typographic traits from a variety of categories, from Egyptian to Latin, from blackletter angularity to Dutch-like curvature, with a total tension even similar to wood type. There are some Goudy-informed shapes that in some way fit conveniently within all this. Then it's all strung together with a mix of wedged, tapered and leaning serifs, positioned with accuracy to reveal expert spontaneity and an excellent command of guiding the forms through counterspace.
In the fall of 2013, the Lapis font styles were scrutinized and remastered into versatile entertainers for sizes large and small. The three weights and their italic equivalents have actually been improved and broadened throughout the board to consist of little caps, alternates, ligatures, ordinals, case-sensitive forms, 6 type of figures, automatic portions, and a character set that covers an extended variety of Latin languages. Each of the Lapis Pro typefaces contains over 760 glyphs.
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