Scotch Modern Regular Font

Scotch Modern Regular Font
Font Name
Scotch Modern Regular Font
Font Family
Scotch Modern
Glyphs
1625
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2008 by Nick Shinn. All rights reserved.
Price
$79.00
Description
Scotch Modern is a revival of the typeface used in the book New York State Cabinet of Natural History.

This beautiful genre of type, so popular in books, magazines and advertisements during the Victorian era and much of the 20th century, was derided by advocates of both the Arts & Crafts movement and 20th century modernists, and has never been properly adapted to hot metal, phototype, or digital media -- until now.

Now the full range of typographic expression is possible in this style. The OpenType fonts support Western and CE encodings, Cyrillic (with Bulgarian alternates) and Polytonic Greek. There are many special features, including small caps, unicase, italic swash capitals, ten sets of figures per font, and both slashed and nut (vertical) fractions.

Recontextualizing the 10-point type of a scientific report published in 1870, Shinn has produced sleekly refined, micro-detailed vector drawings by eye, without the assistance of scans, thus presenting an ironic critique of the way in which mechanical imagery beguiles us with the trite veracity of simulacra.
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OpenType
Standard, Tabular Figures, Titling Alternates, Superscript, Subscript, Stylistic Set 08, Stylistic Set 07, Stylistic Set 06, Stylistic Set 05, Stylistic Set 04, Stylistic Set 03, Stylistic Set 02, Stylistic Set 01, Small Caps, Scientific Inferiors, Stylistic Alternates, Proportional Figures, Ordinals, Oldstyle Figures, Numerator, Localized Forms, Lining Figures, Standard Ligatures, Historical Forms, Fractions, Denominator, Discretionary Ligatures, Glyph Comp/Decomp, Case Sensive Forms, Contextual Alternates, Capitals to Small Caps, Access All Alternates
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Shinntype was founded in Toronto in 1998 to publish the type designs of Nick Shinn, and has since published a variety of original fonts.

Shinn's background as an artist, writer, art director and graphic designer informs his eclectic type designs, which run the gamut from revivals to experimental work exploring new technology, and are used in everything from packaging and advertising to internet, book, magazine, and newspaper publishing around the world.

Posted on
Jun 18, 2009
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Highest Rank Achieved
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Desktop, WebFont, Mobile App & ePub
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