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LexingtonPublisher: Canada Type
Lexington is a retro and brush script typeface household. This typeface has 2 styles and was published by Canada Type.

A revival and significant growth of a 1926 Ludwig Wagner Schriftgiesserei typeface called Titanic, Lexington is the supreme art deco expression of the high times of signage and theater throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Big feminine caps and cozy direct minuscules make for a special mix seldom found in other deco faces.

Topped off with the humorous and rather suave high and pointy ascenders and descenders of the alternates, Lexington produces a versatile and distinctively attractive display face helpful to poster art, book covers, classy menus, product packaging and music paraphernalia.

The original specimen Hans van Maanen worked from revealed the majuscules, minuscules, figures, and 4 alternates of some rising minuscules. This new digital version consists of all of the above, plus lots of more additions:

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- Plenty more alternates, for some caps in addition to for all the rising and descending lowercase.
- 3 different size variations for the comma and the period.
- Oldstyle figures.
- A full complement of accented characters to support more Latin-based languages than ever, including Baltic, Celtic, Turkish, and Central/Eastern European languages.
- A Handtooled design variation that covers both the main character set and the alternates.

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Lexington was called after Manhattan's Lexington Avenue, house of the some of the most famous and polished art deco architecture of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Lexington and Lexington Handtooled can be found in all popular typeface formats. The OpenType variations integrate their particular alternates with the main character sets, for ease of use within OpenType-savvy applications.

.Font Family:
· Lexington Regular
· Lexington Handtooled Regular

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