Right on the heels of the tremendous popularity wave that made Hollandse Mediaeval the most used Dutch typeface during the Great War years, Sjoerd H. de Roos was asked to design a 15 point type for De Zilverdistel, Jean François van Royen’s publishing company.
So between 1914 and 1916, de Roos and van Royen collaborated on the typeface eventually known as
Zilvertype, and which both parties viewed as an improved version of Hollandse Mediaeveal.
Like Hollandse Mediaeval,
Zilvertype was based on the Jenson model, but it is simpler, with more traditional metrics, and lighter and more classic in colour.
This digital version of
Zilvertype comes with small caps, five different sets of figures, plenty of ligatures, and extended language support covering most Latin languages.
Zilvertype Pro contains over 590 characters.
File Size: 7.25 MB
Tags: 1910s, 1920s, book, book text, classy, clean, conservative, custom, dutch, dynamic, elegant, fancy, flair, formal, garalde, headline, invitation, jenson, legible, letterpress, magazine, natural, news, news text, old-style numerals, oldstyle, personal text, sensible, serif, small caps, sturdy, text, venetian, vintage
Release date: June 21, 2012
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- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
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- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)
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