Researches in the history of writing have proved that the lowercase 'a' is at its origin nothing but the 'A' shape transformed through centuries by scribes until the invention of printing. A large number of lowercases meanwhile kept their original shapes. If the scribes' hand didn't find the necessity to simplify them, it is only because these letters could be easily written.
Integrating the classical shapes of capitals to the lowercases has already been used, keeping the lowercases which are only a deformation of capitals. Nevertheless, the respect of readability imposes to keep ascendants and descendants from traditional lowercases which serve as optical focus points in a text and make reading easier.
The particularity of Pagnol is to use rounded shapes on top and bottom of pointed capital letters to make them fit with corresponding lowercases (Aa, Mm, Nn, Vv, Ww, Zz). Lowercases proportions are wide, to be in tune with classic lowercase shapes in order to optimize readability.
Five weights in roman and italic have been designed to offer a wide palette of typographic possibilities in all sizes and all paper and screen supports.
Font Family:
· Pagnol Lower Caps Light
· Pagnol Lower Caps Light Italic
· Pagnol Lower Caps Regular
· Pagnol Lower Caps Regular Italic
· Pagnol Lower Caps Medium
· Pagnol Lower Caps Medium Italic
· Pagnol Lower Caps Bold
· Pagnol Lower Caps Bold Italic
· Pagnol Lower Caps Black
· Pagnol Lower Caps Black Italic
· Pagnol Small Caps Light
· Pagnol Small Caps Light Italic
· Pagnol Small Caps Regular
· Pagnol Small Caps Regular Italic
· Pagnol Small Caps Medium
· Pagnol Small Caps Medium Italic
· Pagnol Small Caps Bold
· Pagnol Small Caps Bold Italic
· Pagnol Small Caps Black
· Pagnol Small Caps Black Italic
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