Amigo™ Font Family

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The designer Arthur Baker created the following fonts: Amigo™, Baker Signet™, Kigali™, Marigold™, Oxford™, Pelican™, Sassafras™, Visigoth™. These fonts are included in the Linotype Library.

Founded by Cynthia Hollandsworth Batty in the mid-1980s with the goal of creating new typefaces. There was some collaboration with the calligrapher Arthur Baker.

Amigo was designed by Arthur Baker in 1989 and consists of a single weight. Its basic forms are based on Venetian old face types, as can be seen for example in the slightly slanted cross stroke of the lower case e. But Baker also gave his figures eccentric contours, for example, a marked stroke contrast which gives the look of having been written with a broad-tipped pen, and the change in stroke is by no means regular in the lower case characters. The heavier upper parts become thinner as they progress downward, in contrast to the tendency of most text typefaces. The eccentricity of the forms give the characters a lively almost comic look and is best highlighted in large point sizes. However, Amigo is also legible in point sizes as small as 10 and well-suited for middle length texts and headlines.