Roos was designed by Sjoerd de
Roos, Patrick Griffin, Hans van Maanen and published by Canada Type.
Roos contains 10 styles and family package options.
The
Roos family is a digitization and expansion of the last typeface designed by Sjoerd Hendrik De
Roos, called De
Roos Romein (and Cursief). It was designed and produced during the years of the second World War, and unveiled in the summer of 1947 to celebrate De
Roos's 70th birthday. In 1948, the first fonts produced were used for a special edition of the Dutch Constitution on which Juliana took the oath during her inauguration as the Queen of the Netherlands. To this day this typeface is widely regarded as De
Roos's best design, with one of the most beautiful italics ever drawn.
In contrast with all his previous roman faces, which were based on the Jenson model, De Roos's last type recalls the letter forms of the Renaissance, specifically those of Claude Garamont from around 1530, but with a much refined and elegant treatment, with stems sloping towards the ascending, slightly cupped serifs, a tall and distinguished lowercase, and an economic width that really shines in the spectacular italic, which harmonizes extremely well with its roman partner.
The Roos family contains romans, italics and small caps in regular, semibold and display weights, as well as a magnificent set of initial caps. All the fonts contain extended language support, surpassing the usual Western Latin codepages to include characters for Central and Eastern European languages, as well as Baltic, Celtic/Welsh, Esperanto, Maltese, and Turkish.
Font Family:
· Roos Roman
· Roos Roman SC
· Roos Roman Italic
· Roos SemiBold
· Roos SemiBold SC
· Roos SemiBold Italic
· Roos Display
· Roos Display SC
· Roos Display Italic
· Roos Initials
File Size: 16.3 MB
Tags: 1940s, 1950s,
book, book text,
clean,
conservative,
corporate,
dutch,
dynamic,
economic,
elegant,
flair,
formal,
garalde,
headline,
initial, initials,
inline,
inscribed,
invitation,
legible,
magazine,
masculine,
monogram,
narrow,
natural, news, news text,
oldstyle, optical sizes, personal text,
punchcut,
renaissance,
sensible,
serif, small capitals,
sturdy, text,
valuable,
vintage,
workhorseRelease date: October 22, 2009
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- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)
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