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Christian Schwartz has partnered with Paul Barnes to form Commercial Type, a new type foundry based in London and New York. Please click here to visit our site.
RETAIL FONTS
Commercial Type:
Austin
Duplicate Sans (NEW)
Duplicate Slab (NEW)
Giorgio
Giorgio Sans
Graphik
Guardian
Local Gothic
Publico
Stag
Stag Sans
Stag Sans Round
Stag Stencil
Emigre:
Los Feliz
Font Bureau:
Amplitude
Farnham
Fritz
Pennsylvania
FontFont:
FF Bau
FF Meta Headline
FF Meta Serif
FF Oxide
FF Unit
FF Unit Slab
House Industries:
Casa Latino!
Luxury
Luxury Text
Neutraface
Neutraface Condensed
Neutraface No. 2
Neutraface Slab
Simian
Linotype:
Neue Haas Grotesk
CUSTOM FONTS
UNFINISHED WORK
EARLY WORK
ABOUT
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2006. Designed with Dino Sanchez. Released by House Industries.
As we mention on the main Luxury page, we added a text face to the family when it was re-released by House Industries in 2006. Although it's really been overshadowed by the more entertaining display faces, I think it's the most interesting (and probably the most useful) part of the family. We were inspired by Aldo Novarese's Augustea Nova, Roman inscriptional caps reinterpreted as a Latin. It's fairly common to see Augustea Open these days, but his lowercase apparently didn't survive the transition to phototype, and I've only ever seen it in one Nebiolo foundry specimen. The is simply an attempt to be as un-calligraphic as possible, and doesn't draw from any specific historical source.
In all-caps or small caps, the influence from Roman inscriptional lettering is much more obvious, especially with some extra tracking.
The details are so sharp that it's almost a text face in name only, although it does seem to do well on uncoated paper. The long ascenders and descenders demand generous leading. In spite of all this, it has the small caps, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, etc. that people expect in a text face these days.
Roman, Italic and Bold

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