Blog — Colin M. Ford, Designer - “The Ingeborg family was designed with the intent...
“The Ingeborg family was designed with the intent of producing a readable modern face. Its roots might well be historic, but its approach is very contemporary. Ingeborg‘s Text Weights are functional and discreet. This was achieved without losing the classic characteristics of a Didone typeface, which are the vertical stress and the high contrast. The Display Weights on the other hand are designed to fulfill their job and catch the reader’s eye by individual form and a whole lot of ink on the paper. Nevertheless both are of one origin and work together in harmony.”
By Type Jockeys, of whom I have been a big fan for quite a long time (via TDC2 2010 Winners)

“The Ingeborg family was designed with the intent of producing a readable modern face. Its roots might well be historic, but its approach is very contemporary. Ingeborg‘s Text Weights are functional and discreet. This was achieved without losing the classic characteristics of a Didone typeface, which are the vertical stress and the high contrast. The Display Weights on the other hand are designed to fulfill their job and catch the reader’s eye by individual form and a whole lot of ink on the paper. Nevertheless both are of one origin and work together in harmony.”

By Type Jockeys, of whom I have been a big fan for quite a long time (via TDC2 2010 Winners)

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