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Shannon™ Premier Book
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| Price: | US$ 26.00 |
| ... is part of the Shannon™ Font Family, comprising altogether 8 fonts in Windows PostScript format. |
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Shannon™ Premier Book
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| Price: | US$ 26.00 |
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Documents referring to this product ...
Kris Holmes – born 19. 7. 1950 in Reedly, California, USA – type designer.
1968–71: studies at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (courses include calligraphy under Lloyd Reynolds and Robert Paladino). 1975: studies at the Martha Graham School and the Alwin Nikolai School in New York (modern dance). 1976: studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York (including lettering with Ephram E. Benguiat). 1979: studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York (courses include [...]
Janice Prescott Fishman designed the highly legible Shannon™ font family together with Kris Holmes exclusively for Compugraphic in 1982. Its design blends ancient Irish calligraphy from the Book of Kells and contemporary letterforms. Shannon is a modified sans serif typeface with slightly flared terminals that give the effect of serifs, thus aiding readability.
Shannon is ideal for a whole range of uses: advertising and magazines to slides and data sheets.
About Shannon™ Premier Book ...
Designer: Janice Prescott / Kris Holmes, 1982
Shannon™ Premier Book belongs to the Shannon™ Font Family which is part of the Monotype Originals.
The highly legible Shannon font family was designed by Janice Prescott Fishman and Kris Holmes exclusively for Compugraphic in 1982. Its design blends ancient Irish calligraphy from the Book of Kells and contemporary letterforms. Shannon is a modified sans serif typeface with slightly flared terminals that give the effect of serifs, thus aiding readability. Shannon is ideal for a whole range of uses: advertising and magazines to slides and data sheets.
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XSF-Fonts are OpenType or TrueType fonts with an excellent appearance on screen at small sizes or low resolutions – especially engineered and optimized for exceptionally readable typefaces on computer screens using Microsoft® Windows operating systems.
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