Designed by Patrick Griffin, Hans van Maanen and Helmut Salden, Salden is a several category typeface family. This typeface has six styles and was published by Canada Type.

The Salden fonts are our homage to the guy who was called the face of the Dutch book, and whose work is thought about necessary in 20th century Dutch design history. Helmut Salden's exquisite book cover designs were the gold requirement in the Netherlands for more than four years. His impact over Dutch lettering artists and book designers varies everywhere, and his work continues to be utilized commercially and showed to this extremely day.

At the root of Salden's style work was an unique eye for counter area and incredible lettering abilities that never ever failed to awe, despite classification or genre. This made our attention to his lettering all the more concentrated within our appreciation to his overall visual. Though Salden never ever developed alphabets to be turned into typefaces (he drew sets of letters which he in some cases recycled and customized to fit various tasks), we believed there sufficed there to deduce what a few various typefaces by Salden would have appeared like. The man was prolific, so there were certainly enough kinds to direct us, and enough variation in style to push our enjoyment even further. Therefore we got in touch with the right individuals, obtained access to the pertinent material, and had a great deal of enjoyable from there.

This set covers the gamut of Salden's lettering skills. Consisted of are his popular caps, his untamed, chunky flare sans serif in 2 widths, his unique Roman letters and an italic buddy and, the majority of recognizable of all, his distinctive scripty upright italic lowercase shapes, which he utilized together with Roman caps drawn particularly for that sort of combination titling.

All the font styles in this set include Pan-European glyph sets. They're also filled with bonus. Salden Roman (908 glyphs) and Salden Italic (976 glyphs) each included built-in little caps (and caps-to-small-caps), rather a few ligatures, and 2 various sets of alternates. Salden Black and Salden Black Condensed (636 glyphs each) included a set of alternates, and both lining and oldstyle figures. Salden Caps (597 glyphs) features a set of alternates, and Salden Titling (886 glyphs) features a rather a lot of swashed forms and alternates (consisting of as lots of 6 variations for some kinds), a couple of discretionary ligatures, and two sets of figures. There are likewise some form rotates for the Cyrillic and Greek sets included in all six fonts.

These alphabets were enjoyably studied and thoroughly established over the previous ten years approximately. We consider ourselves extremely fortunate to be the ones bringing them to the world as our contribution to keeping the tradition of a famous skill and a terrific designer. Most of the work was based upon Salden's original drawings, access to which was happily supplied by Museum Meermanno in The Hague.

The Salden font styles were carried out in arrangement with Stichting 1940-1945, and their sale will in part benefit Museum Meermanno.

Font Family:
· Salden Titling
· Salden Roman
· Salden Italic
· Salden Black
· Salden Black Condensed
· Salden Caps