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Old Man Eloquent

Old Man Eloquent™

by Three Islands Press
Individual Styles from $29.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $49.00
Old Man Eloquent Font Family was designed by Brian Willson and published by Three Islands Press. Old Man Eloquent contains 2 styles and family package options.

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Old Man Eloquent Family

2 fonts

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Per style:

$24.50

Pack of 2 styles:

$49.00

About Old Man Eloquent Font Family


John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, didn't hit his stride until he'd left that lofty office. It was during his many years in Congress that he assured his legacy, not least because of his long, masterful oratory opposing slavery. His speeches, in fact, won him the nickname "Old Man Eloquent." So when I decided to simulate Adams's penmanship in his legendary diary (which he kept for nearly 70 years), it seemed fitting to call the font by that name. I focused on his handwriting from about 1810, when he was Ambassador to Russia, but also consulted pages from later years. Old Man Eloquent has both regular and bold weights. The OpenType version has more than 450 glyphs, including alternate uppercase characters, old-style and lining figures, and numerous ligatures; all formats contain several common (English) words.

Designers: Brian Willson

Publisher: Three Islands Press

Foundry: Three Islands Press

Original Foundry: unknown

Design Owner: Three Islands Press

MyFonts debut: Sep 10, 2010

Old Man Eloquent™ is a trademark of Three Islands Press.

About Three Islands Press

Three Islands Press (a.k.a., “3IP”) is a small type foundry in Rockport, Maine. Specialties include historical replications, fine text type, old map fonts, and painstaking recreations of vintage and modern handwriting. 3IP is the d.b.a. of Brian Willson, who accidentally stumbled into type design in the 1990s after a career in print and broadcast journalism. He has absolutely no formal training—just a peculiar knack for making fonts that look like real handwriting and antique text materials. 3IP also represents the work of Swedish type designer Lars Bergquist, whose previous career was publishing of encyclopedias and reference literature in the days of lead type. Bergquist’s elegant, varied, multipurpose typefaces are as polished as any out there.

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