Burgstaedt Antiqua™ Font Family

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

Burgstaedt Antiqua™ Italic (TakeType Collection) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 54.00

Burgstaedt Antiqua Complete Family Pack (TakeType Collection) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 108.00

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 [...]

At first glance, Burgstaedt Antiqua looks like an old typewriter face, or rather like a typeface from a typewriter that has gone hopelessly wrong! Only after your second glance will you see this font for what it really is - a thoroughly new text face. Several features of Burgstaedt Antiqua, and its companion italic face, are worth special attention: First, the terminal styles of the letters vary throughout the alphabet. This gives text set in Burgstaedt Antiqua a slightly jittery feeling. A second interesting feature is the lowercase "q", which takes the form of a shrunken-down uppercase "Q". Careful viewing of our specially prepared PDF specimen will reveal even more hidden features!
Burgstaedt Antiqua Regular and Burgstaedt Antiqua Italic may be used in both text and headlines. For use in text, we recommend employing a slightly larger point size (12 pt or 14 pt and above). British designer Richard Yeend designed this family in 2002, and both of its fonts are included in the Take Type 5 collection from Linotype GmbH.