Congenial Italic Black Font

Congenial Italic Black Font
Font Name
Congenial Italic Black Font
Font Family
Congenial
Glyphs
426
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2017 by Laura Worthington. All rights reserved.
Price
$19.00
Description
I wanted to design my own sans-serif typeface for my web site to complement the rest of my type library, so I designed Congenial as an understated, highly legible complement to my more decorative display faces. Of course, I’m never far from my calligraphic roots, so Congenial retains some hand-drawn elements, visible particularly in the heavier weights of this generous 10-face family: for example, the swelling diagonal stroke of the capital X, and the flared terminals of the K, L, Q, and Z. At lighter weights the strokes become almost monoline, but the humanist tendency is still evident — see the graceful, decidedly non-geometric curves of the k, e, and g.

As befits its name, Congenial is a friendly and inviting face with a generous x-height and highly differentiated characters. In fact, look closely and you won’t see a sharp, modernist edge anywhere. Like a perfect host, Congenial draws little attention to herself, yet she’s arranged everything for effortless comfort — so you can focus on communicating whatever you need to say.
friendly,sans,headline,round,thin,bold,black,light,advertising,legible,magazine,poster,modern,geometric,humanist,logo,contemporary
OpenType
Standard, Oldstyle Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Small Caps, Superscript
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An accomplished and award-winning typeface and lettering designer, my passion for the craft, devotion to precision as I refine my creations along with my desire to provide designers with type that's rich with personality and versatility combine to form a body of work that offers practicality and aesthetic appeal. Each project is a journey that I undertake with enthusiasm and joyful discovery and gratitude that my background in graphic design, calligraphy and typography have given me the opportunity to focus on what I love to do most. My approach is unusual in that everything from original concept and drawings through production is mine. Rather than collaborate or look to historical predecessors, I craft original, lovingly handmade letters which form the base of my typeface designs.
I offer designs that are infused with both personality and the sense of a milieu or era, a moment captured from time or place and then transformed. Yet, rich as they are, I nearly always provide the tools to make the typeface package expansive with an extraordinary number of alternates, ornaments and other Open Type features that a designer can, in effect, combine to make the typeface reflect their own personal style. My home is in the Pacific Northwest. Nothing makes me happier in my professional life than spending my workday experimenting, conceiving, and painstakingly creating hand lettering for typefaces, sitting, dogs at my feet, surrounded by the trees.

Posted on
Dec 01, 2017
Product Ranking
13726
Highest Rank Achieved
2189
Licensing available
Desktop, WebFont, Mobile App & ePub
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