A clean elegant serif for display work

This new serif typeface is readable & graceful. It is the first part of my development of a series of book families, beginning with Artimas. Originally traced from a printed proof of an old display face named Erasmus, this new font retains the looseness of the original with radically different font metrics and many shape “corrections”.

In fact, Aramus marks a genuine turnaround for my foundry

I've spent years developing fonts with x-heights that are rather large. Starting with Diaconia in 1995, to Bergsland Pro in the early parts of the millenium, and finally cleaned up in amitale, my book fonts have been extremely readable, and very useful with x-heights in the 40% to 50% range.

Aramus marks a turn toward more “traditional” x-heights of around a third of the point size. So far, this beginning is finding root in a new book family designed for facile copy production Artimas, due out in the Spring of 2009. Aramus is a new OpenType Pro font with Caps, lowercase, small caps, & figures to go with each of those character sets. There are many ligatures, a few swashes, fractions, numerators, denominators, and ordinals to infinity. More experimental than most of mine, this font is a joy to read and easy to use for text or display.

Pricing

Individual Font $24.95 2-font Family $36.00 4-font Family $49.00 6-font Family $77.00 8-font Family $99.00

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