Robard was developed by Alison Argento and released by Dear Alison. Robard contains 1 style. p > My brother is an architect, and I have actually constantly loved his lettering, you know, the style of composing that can be found on architectural drawings. There is a common thread to it, yet each designer or engineer brings their own character to it. I have seen a comparable design being used by some hand-letterers for invitations, place cards and signage. Motivated, I set out to develop my own, and the outcome is my brand-new typeface, Robard!

I desired something compact, somewhat modular, done quickly but with control, and sourced from hand-lettering. Starting with a handful of pigment ink pens, I decided on a 0.1 mm Copic Multi-Liner, and using a light table with a grid below the paper, I cranked out grouping after grouping, letter after letter, numbers, punctuation, accents, simply trying to zero in on the sensation and the appearance I wanted. There were some concepts that didn't work, like unicase (there would be no routine lowercase), or swash alternates. Eventually, I ended up with a good selection of glyphs to pick from, and alternates like oldstyle numbers, and an alternate set of caps for the lowercase slots, and even alternative figures so doubles like 88 would be different.

In the typeface, the OpenType ligature code automatically alternates the cap and lowercase (alternate cap) letters, and numbers as you type, lending Robard that hand-lettered appearance in a digital typeface that I was hoping for. There are likewise oldstyle figures, and unrestricted fractions, ordinals, and a few alternate letters.

I hope you like Robard!

Font Family: Robard

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