Anasdair™ Font Family

Anasdair™ Regular (TakeType Collection) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 54.00

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Born: London, 5 April 1945 Education: Kings College, Taunton, and Cambridge School of Art. Art director, caricaturist and type designer. ART DIRECTOR The Wall Street Journal Europe 1999 – Die Welt 1998–1999 Redesigned the newspaper; Drew daily editorial cartoons. Drew logotype for Berliner Morgenpost International Herald Tribune 1987–1998 Redesigned the newspaper. Drew editorial cartoons. The New York Times 1978–1987 Designed the Financial sections and business [...]

Font Designer: Richard Yeend, 2002 Anasdair™ is a semi-serif text face that maintains its calligraphic origins. Its wide uppercase characters display an even, mono-spaced appearance. The design of the lowercase letters couples this rhythm with large apertures and tall x-heights. Anasdair’s sharp, pen-formed details are recognizable even in small point sizes, and they help lead the eye through the letters’ curves – bringing the of the reader’s eye across the line of the page. Coming [...]

Font Designer: Richard Yeend, 2002 Anasdair™ is a semi-serif text face that maintains its calligraphic origins. Its wide uppercase characters display an even, mono-spaced appearance. The design of the lowercase letters couples this rhythm with large apertures and tall x-heights. Anasdair’s sharp, pen-formed details are recognizable even in small point sizes, and they help lead the eye through the letters’ curves – bringing the of the reader’s eye across the line of the page. Coming [...]

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Anasdair is a semi-serif text face that maintains its calligraphic origins. Its wide uppercase characters display an even, mono-spaced appearance. The design of the lowercase letters couples this rhythm with large apertures and tall x-heights. Anasdair's sharp, pen-formed details are recognizable even in small point sizes, and they help lead the eye through the letters' curves-bringing the reader's eye across the line of the page. Both Anasdair Regular and Anasdair Bold have supplementary Alternate fonts available. These Alternate fonts contain extra ligature pairs not found in the standard character set (e.g., ffi, ft, and tt), as well as alternative characters, such as a second capital I, and a long s.
Anasdair was created by the British designer Richard Yeend, and is similar to Prof. Herbert Post's Post Antiqua, and Renate Weise's extensive Scriptuale family. Anasdair looks great in formal applications, and may be particularly useful on certificates or invitations.
All four fonts in the Anasdair family, including its two weights, and their alternate sets, are part of the Linotype Libarary's Take Type 5 collection.