Typographic modernism was a late arrival in Britain - due partly to the Second World War and to the strong local type tradition. This delay provided for fruitful divergence, thus modernism was not adored in quite the same way as it had been in Germany and central Europe. It was instead rethought and repurposed against the backdrop of the bleak British weather and postwar social reform – a continental fashion statement reshaped into a more humanist variant.
Likewise, when crafting Adelphi, Nick Job reimagined the constraints that defined the geometric sans as a genre. Whereas other typefaces seem overly bound by the rules, Adelphi feels relaxed and approachable. Elementary square and circular shapes are merely implied. A keen observer may notice that the uncomplicated letterforms occasionally reveal a subtle naïveté associated with early Grotesques. Brunel's bridges and Harry Beck's tube map spring to mind alongside the Bauhaus and Futura.
But Adelphi is by no means nostalgic! It is a contemporary, comprehensive, and durable system with a pragmatic set of features. These include a wide array of weights, 'uniwidth italics', and variable extenders that go from tall and flat in Adelphi Text to short and sharp in Adelphi Display, with default Adelphi standing midway between these two extremes. You can set the extenders to your preference in the all-inclusive variable font or use one of the three static fonts that come packed together, priced as a single font.
The pan-European support for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts already makes for a vast character set, but Adelphi takes things a step further by including alternate glyphs to satisfy the DIN1450 legibility norm, a range of ordinals that can be used to create specialist compositions in all three scripts and two kinds of fractions and arrows. Play with the alternates or use it as-is. Either way, this understated beauty will carry you through.
Font Family:
· Adelphi PE Display Thin
· Adelphi PE Display Thin Italic
· Adelphi PE Display Extralight
· Adelphi PE Display Extralight Italic
· Adelphi PE Display Light
· Adelphi PE Display Light Italic
· Adelphi PE Display Regular
· Adelphi PE Display Italic
· Adelphi PE Display Medium
· Adelphi PE Display Medium Italic
· Adelphi PE Display Bold
· Adelphi PE Display Bold Italic
· Adelphi PE Display Extrabold
· Adelphi PE Display Extrabold Italic
· Adelphi PE Display Black
· Adelphi PE Display Black Italic
· Adelphi PE Thin
· Adelphi PE Thin Italic
· Adelphi PE Extralight
· Adelphi PE Extralight Italic
· Adelphi PE Light
· Adelphi PE Light Italic
· Adelphi PE Regular
File Size: 13.93 MB
Supported languages: Bulgarian, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish
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