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Beaufort Pro Medium Font

Font Id: 1602
Font Name: Beaufort Pro Medium Font
Font Format: OpenType Mac/Win
Font Family: BeaufortBeaufort
Glyphs: 597
Price: $59.00
Description: This type is almost a sans serif. It has legibility proportions, and a very large, useful family with specially adapted condensed and extended sub-families.
Compared with type set by older technologies, PostScript type, imageset and printed by high-resolution offset lithography, has a remarkable clarity - at any size. While many types, old and new, benefit from this level of definition, few designs specifically exploit it. Beaufort does. Its pointed serifs introduce a sharpness of reproduction that was difficult to achieve, at any size, prior to PostScript. This means that small sizes of Beaufort will combine a high word count with good legibility, while large sizes will always display very fine detail. Optical scaling is not required.

In style, Beaufort has a number of affinities. In particular, the bold romans recall a kind of "grotesque with small serifs" style popular with sign painters and package lettering artists in the early 20th century, and still going strong. In proportion, the basic Beaufort is in the vein of the classic oldstyle types that descend from Granjon, via the French Oldstyles, or Elzevirs, to Plantin and Times in the early twentieth century. Designed for optimum clarity, readibility, and word count, these types have a pronounced angle of stress in the lower case, which is quite large and fairly narrow in relation to the caps. None of the caps are exceptionally narrow, and both cases have an evenness of width that makes for a no-nonsense, orthodox appearance. The strength of the capitals distinguishes these types from those of another optimizing era, the 1970s and 80s, when puny caps made for monotonous text. However, strong though they may be, Beaufort's caps are not as obtrusive in text as those of Times or Plantin.
OpenType: Standard, Tabular Figures, Superscript, Small Caps, Scientific Inferiors, Proportional Figures, Ordinals, Oldstyle Figures, Numerator, Localized Forms, Lining Figures, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Denominator, Case Sensive Forms, Capitals to Small Caps
Posted by: Shinntype
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 19, 2009
Product Ranking: 20635
Highest Rank Achieved: 1845
Licensing available: Desktop, WebFont, Mobile App & ePub

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