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Ainslie is a sans serif font family. This typeface has forty-two styles and was published by Insigne Design.

The new typeface, Ainslie, with its mix of influences from Oz, makes its mark as the first semi-serif from insigne Design.

Ainslie, named for Mt. Ainslie and Canberra’s inner suburb of the same name, was originally developed for the Canberra Australia Centennial Typeface Competition. Canberra is Australia’s capital, and It’s a planned city designed by American Walter Burley Griffin, a contemporary and one-time associate of Frank Lloyd Wright. Griffin’s plan involved a distinctly geometric design with several focal points—one of which was Mt. Ainslie. This same purely geometric scheme is now the basis for insigne’s new release.

Similar to the Chatype project in its scope, its challenge, and the way its concept was developed, Ainslie incorporates influences from Canberra and surrounding areas to form a font that is uniquely Australian. In comparison, Chatype was developed for the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee by insigne in conjunction with designer Robbie de Villiers. Chatype took elements from Chattanooga’s industrial character and Cherokee past and merged them with the area’s technological influences.

Likewise, Ainslie takes Canberra’s distinct, geometric design and blends it with the organic, flowing effect of aboriginal art. Add in touches from the smooth, aerodynamic design of the boomerang and Ainslie gives you a look uniquely Australian yet usable in a wide range of applications.

The fashionable typeface includes a multitude of alternates that can be accessed in any OpenType-enabled application. These stylish alternates along with a number of swashes as well as meticulously refined details with ball terminals and alternate titling caps keep the font well accessorized. Also included are capital swash alternates, old style figures, and small caps. Peruse the PDF brochure to see these features in action. OpenType enabled applications such as the Adobe suite or Quark can take full advantage of the automatic replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also offers the glyphs to support a wide range of languages.

While Ainslie wasn’t selected as the final font in the Canberra competition, the outcome allowed for additional adjustments to the typeface. Several approaches were attempted for the final product including a technological hexagonal concept, which may still be developed to another form later. Some of the organic forms were removed and substituted with more abrupt endings, leaving the face looking pretty spiffy and a fair bit more legible. In the end, Ainslie was pulled back to the basic forms from which it was started.

Font Family:
· Ainslie Norm Thin
· Ainslie Norm Thin Italic
· Ainslie Norm Light
· Ainslie Norm Light Italic
· Ainslie Norm Book
· Ainslie Norm Book Italic
· Ainslie Norm Regular
· Ainslie Norm Regular Italic
· Ainslie Norm Medium
· Ainslie Norm Medium Italic
· Ainslie Norm Demi
· Ainslie Norm Demi Italic
· Ainslie Norm Bold
· Ainslie Norm Bold Italic
· Ainslie Cond Thin
· Ainslie Cond Thin Italic
· Ainslie Cond Light
· Ainslie Cond Light Italic
· Ainslie Cond Book
· Ainslie Cond Book Italic
· Ainslie Cond Regular
· Ainslie Cond Regular Italic
· Ainslie Cond Medium
· Ainslie Cond Medium Italic
· Ainslie Cond Demi
· Ainslie Cond Demi Italic
· Ainslie Cond Bold
· Ainslie Cond Bold Italic
· Ainslie Ext Thin
· Ainslie Ext Thin Italic
· Ainslie Ext Light
· Ainslie Ext Light Italic
· Ainslie Ext Book
· Ainslie Ext Book Italic
· Ainslie Ext Regular
· Ainslie Ext Regular Italic
· Ainslie Ext Medium
· Ainslie Ext Medium Italic
· Ainslie Ext Demi
· Ainslie Ext Demi Italic
· Ainslie Ext Bold
· Ainslie Ext Bold Italic

File Size: 2.7 MB

You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)

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