Petrarka was released by HiH. Petrarka consists of 2 designs and family bundle alternatives. p > Petrarka may be referred to as a Condensed, Sans-Serif, Semi-Fatface Roman. Huh? Bear with me on this. The Fatface is a name offered to the popular nineteenth-century romans that where characterized by an extremity of contrast between the thick and thin stroke. The earliest example that is normally familiar is Thorowgood, believed to have actually been designed by Robert Thorne and released by Thorowgood Foundry in 1820 as 'Five-line Pica No. 5.' Copied by many foundries, it ended up being one of the more popular marketing types of the day. Later, in the period from about 1890 to 1950, you find a variety of typeface styles with the thin stroke beefed up a bit, not quite so severe. What you may call Semi-Fatfaced Romans begin to replace the severe Fatfaces. Serifed designs like Bauer's Bernard Roman Bonus Bold and ATF's Strong Antique appear. In addition, we see the development of semi-fatface lineals or Sans-Serif Semi-Fatfaces. Examples include Britannic (Stephenson Blake), Chambord Bold (Olive), Koloss (Ludwig & & Mayer), Matthews (ATF) and Glowing Heavy (Ludlow). Petrarka has much in typical with this latter group, but is distinguished by 2 significant features: it is condensed and it shows a strong blackletter influence, as seen in the 'H' particularly.

Petrark was launched about 1900 by the German foundry of Schelter & & Giesecke of Leipzig and is among the designs of the duration that tries to fix up roman and blackletter traditions.

Making a cameo appearance in this Multi-Lingual font is the Anglo-Saxon letter yogh (# 729), which, in addition to the thorn and the eth, is always useful for preparing flyers in Old English. There are still pockets of resistance to the Norman French influence that cleaned up on England's coasts in 1066. This font stands with King Canute, looking for to keep back the tide (neglecting the truth that Canute was a Dane). Support the fight to maintain Anglo-Saxon culture. Purchase Petrarka ML today.

Petrarka Initials brings together the Petrarka upper case letters with a very sympatico Art Nouveau rendering of a female face.

Font Family:
· Petrarka ML
· Petrarka Initials SC

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