Schick Toikka on Instagram: "NEW RELEASE: Edict To many typographers and connoisseurs, types originating in late Renaissance and early Baroque France represent …
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Schick Toikka on Instagram: "NEW RELEASE: Edict

To many typographers and connoisseurs, types originating in late Renaissance and early Baroque France represent the pinnacle of beauty. Almost 500 years after Claude Garamond and Robert Granjon cut their punches in Paris, typefaces following their style are perceived as classics. With sophisticated shapes and self-evident proportions, they exude warmth and embody legibility.

Edict isn’t a revival, certainly not an academic one based on one specific model from the archives of type history. It’s more fittingly described as an original interpretation of the genre. Edict amalgamates traits and details freely, drawing on a multitude of sources. Edict exhibits a higher contrast, with greater differences between thicks and thins, and a contrast ax Chiaroscuro Lighting, Chiaroscuro, High Contrast, News Release, Lower Case Letters, Light In The Dark, History
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Schick Toikka on Instagram: "NEW RELEASE: Edict To many typographers and connoisseurs, types originating in late Renaissance and early Baroque France represent the pinnacle of beauty. Almost 500 years after Claude Garamond and Robert Granjon cut their punches in Paris, typefaces following their style are perceived as classics. With sophisticated shapes and self-evident proportions, they exude warmth and embody legibility. Edict isn’t a revival, certainly not an academic one based on one...
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