The working idea for the typeface came from a design school letter-making exercise: Take a pair of scissors and a few large sheets of paper, and start cutting. The resulting letters and the action itself of cutting them out of paper informed the type design process, producing strong, simple shapes and an open, inviting texture.
Dovetail's tone is crisp and straightforward. Its classic letterforms, set off with a touch of playfulness, give the design both a practical and spontaneous personality. The text weights capably set copy at a variety of sizes for print and render crisply on screen. Its lightest and heaviest weights perform best at display sizes.
Care has been taken to save the typographer's time with OpenType features including contextual punctuation and symbols to fit mixed-case, small-caps, and all-caps settings, as well as figure sets tuned to each use.
Font Family:
· MVB Dovetail Extra Light
· MVB Dovetail Extra Light Italic
· MVB Dovetail Light
· MVB Dovetail Light Italic
· MVB Dovetail Regular
· MVB Dovetail Italic
· MVB Dovetail Medium
· MVB Dovetail Medium Italic
· MVB Dovetail Bold
· MVB Dovetail Bold Italic
· MVB Dovetail Heavy
· MVB Dovetail Heavy Italic
File Size: 21.8 MB