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Essonnes

Essonnes

by James Todd
Individual Styles from $40.00
Complete family of 16 fonts: $400.00
Essonnes Font Family was designed by James Todd and published by James Todd. Essonnes contains 16 styles and family package options.

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About Essonnes Font Family


Made up of sixteen individual weights and spread over three different optical sizes, Essonnes is designed to bring utility back to the Didot genre. It’s a common belief among designers that Didones don’t work for text. This wasn’t true in 1819 and it isn’t true today. Like its forbearers, Essonnes is a truly optical family—not just a study in adjusting contrast. The text and display weights have been designed from the ground up for their intended roles. This means that everything from the height of the uppercase & lowercase letters have been specifically tuned for their intended purpose. Like many typefaces, Essonnes started after falling in love with a piece of history. In this case, it was the eccentric forms of Pierre Didot’s Type and the evolution of the High contrast Didone throughout the 19th century. It was out of curiosity and love for these forms that led to the first draft of what would become Essonnes back in 2011. These unique situations—screens, modern printing methods, the previous 200 years of typographic innovation since the original design, my own life experiences—have led to a typeface that, while based on history, is not stuck in it.

Designers: James Todd

Publisher: James Todd

Foundry: James Todd

Design Owner: James Todd

MyFonts debut: Sep 2, 2015

Essonnes

About James Todd

Established in 2009 by James Hultquist-Todd: a former bespoke tailor, mechanic, auto upholsterer, musician, and designer. JTD Type specializes in custom and retail typeface design for agencies, studios, and businesses of all types. Please visit JTDType.com to learn more and see the rest of our offerings.He is not sure why the foundry is listed as James Todd on Monotype platforms and would prefer you license the type directly from us.

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