We love RVI because of its high educational value. In its own humble way, this typeface actually teaches its users. With all of the little changes that pile up, the differentiation between slantation and construction, and the precise freedom it allows — RVI makes you look carefully, pay attention to details, and learn a thing or two about italics.| Typographica
Clavichord looks tarted up like a scrawny Christmas tree weighed down with a multitude of frills, swashes, flourishes, and ball terminals like so many garish and pendulous ornaments. Sounds godawful, doesn’t it? Yet the more I look, the more I like, despite all my efforts to resist.| Typographica
DJR pushes type past expected usage: whether it’s his super-heavy take on De Vinne that exists somewhere beyond the intended design’s theoretical limits, or the Venetian-inspired Fern that performs robustly at tiny sizes while retaining calligraphic style, gesture, and intention.| Typographica
If you’re looking for a blackletter without the baggage, Bradley DJR may be the typeface for you. David Jonathan Ross’ first attempt at producing a blackletter, Bradley DJR is a revival of an 1895 ATF face based on lettering done by the prolific American graphic designer Will Bradley, whose style straddled the gap between arts and crafts and art nouveau.| Typographica