Designed by Patrick Griffin, Kevin Allan King and Walter Tiemann, Orpheus Pro is a serif font household. This typeface has four styles and was published by Canada Type.

The original Orpheus design by Walter Tiemann (1926-1928, Klingspor) was definitely a masterpiece. Sadly, thus lots of typefaces of that between-wars era, it got overlooked when type technology changed over to movie, and once again when digital type came around. However during the decade or so when it was offered on the metal type market, it was quite popular in Germany. Tiemann was currently well-known for having an unparalleled impulse for the construct and proportions of classic Roman caps, something that shows in spades here, however the unexpected genius of Orpheus at the time was how it managed to perfectly integrate an expert vision of the conventional empire caps with a lowercase that showcases a very fine and accurate infusion of that efficient rhythm of contemporary minimalism that was all the rage in Germany at the time, which obviously lives on to this extremely day.

The italic companion to the original Orpheus roman was released in 1936, under the name Euphorion. One factor it never ever really took off is naturally the truth that the war started just 3 years later on, so the typeface had not had much time for excellent exposure. However, the Euphorion italic was entirely different than Orpheus in its treatment of basic sources of typographic guidelines and inspirations. With Euphorion, Tiemann kept the status quo of the conventional italic minuscules, but included a couple of differentiating features to letters like the g, k, t, v, w and y. It was with the majuscules where he went really expensive. Together with the basic traditional italic set of caps, he created 2 additional sets, each moving a notch away from the traditional capitals and closer to official calligraphy, to a point where elegance is just oozing out of some of the swashed shapes. This kind of abundant design progression need to have been a headache for the Klingspor punchcutters and pantographs, as evidenced by some of the print specimens left from back then.

The Orpheus Pro fonts began out as a straightforward revival of Tiemann's Orpheus and Euphorion. It was as easy as a work brief can be. But did we ever get carried away, and what must have been ended up in a few weeks wound up taking in the best part of two years, countless containers of coffee, and the unforgiving scrutiny of too many pairs of eyeballs. The terrific roman caps just screamed for a lot of extensions, alternates, swashes, ligatures, combinations from various times, and naturally little caps. The roman lowercase wanted extra alternates and even a few ligatures. The italic required to get the exact same treatment for its lowercase that Tiemann imagined for the uppercase. So the lowercase overdid it, with a lot of alternates and swashes and ligatures. Even the italic uppercase was augmented by (perhaps too numerous!) extra letters. And after the Bold was ended up, we just needed to do a Medium weight. Orpheus Pro has been a real ride.

But now, taking a look at the end result with exhausted eyes and rapidly varying moods, we definitely think it deserved it. There should be a trendy line about Orpheus playing great music for your eyes, but we haven't quite created it yet. Such legendaries are hard to come by in fontland.

Each Orpheus Pro font style comes geared up with upwards of 1000 characters and is rich with OpenType functions and extended Latin-based language support.

Font Family:
· Orpheus Pro Regular
· Orpheus Pro Italic
· Orpheus Pro Medium
· Orpheus Pro Bold