Leafy
Leafy
Banner
Favored
Throngs
Missilery
Wringing
Preverbal
Offshoots
Suzettes
Fusiliers
Chamber
Rearmost
Outfielder
Phonically
Favored
Throngs
Missilery
Wringing
Preverbal
Offshoots
Suzettes
Fusiliers
Chamber
Rearmost
Outfielder
Phonically
Display
Unembarrassed
Septuagenarians
Institutionalizing
Encephalographic
Unpretentiousness
Pillage Watermarks
Héctor Elizondo
Master of Reality
Ticket to Paradise
Augustine of Hippo
Operation Downfall
Charles I of England
Unembarrassed
Septuagenarians
Institutionalizing
Encephalographic
Unpretentiousness
Pillage Watermarks
Héctor Elizondo
Master of Reality
Ticket to Paradise
Augustine of Hippo
Operation Downfall
Charles I of England
Subhead
Croatian War of Independence
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Las Américas International Airport
Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
Death and funeral of Henry Kissinger
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Encounters at the End of the World
International Bank Account Number
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Croatian War of Independence
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Las Américas International Airport
Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
Death and funeral of Henry Kissinger
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Encounters at the End of the World
International Bank Account Number
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Text
Les représentants du peuple français, constitués en Assemblée nationale, considérant que l’ignorance, l’oubli ou le mépris des droits de l’homme sont les seules causes des malheurs publics et de la corruption des gouvernements, ont résolu d’exposer, dans une déclaration solennelle, les droits naturels, inaliénables et sacrés de l’homme, afin que cette déclaration, constamment présente à tous les membres du corps social, leur rappelle sans cesse leurs droits et leurs devoirs ; afin que les actes du pouvoir législatif et ceux du pouvoir exécutif, pouvant être à chaque instant comparés avec le but de toute institution politique, en soient plus respectés ; afin que les réclamations des citoyens, fondées désormais sur des principes simples et incontestables, tournent toujours au maintien de la Constitution et au bonheur de tous.
The representatives of the French People, formed into a National Assembly, considering ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of the rights of man to be the only causes of public misfortunes and the corruption of Governments, have resolved to set forth, in a solemn Declaration, the natural, unalienable and sacred rights of man, to the end that this Declaration, constantly present to all members of the body politic, may remind them unceasingly of their rights and their duties; to the end that the acts of the legislative power and those of the executive power, since they may be continually compared with the aim of every political institution, may thereby be the more respected; to the end that the demands of the citizens, founded henceforth on simple and incontestable principles, may always be directed toward the maintenance of the Constitution and the happiness of all.
Les représentants du peuple français, constitués en Assemblée nationale, considérant que l’ignorance, l’oubli ou le mépris des droits de l’homme sont les seules causes des malheurs publics et de la corruption des gouvernements, ont résolu d’exposer, dans une déclaration solennelle, les droits naturels, inaliénables et sacrés de l’homme, afin que cette déclaration, constamment présente à tous les membres du corps social, leur rappelle sans cesse leurs droits et leurs devoirs ; afin que les actes du pouvoir législatif et ceux du pouvoir exécutif, pouvant être à chaque instant comparés avec le but de toute institution politique, en soient plus respectés ; afin que les réclamations des citoyens, fondées désormais sur des principes simples et incontestables, tournent toujours au maintien de la Constitution et au bonheur de tous.
The representatives of the French People, formed into a National Assembly, considering ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of the rights of man to be the only causes of public misfortunes and the corruption of Governments, have resolved to set forth, in a solemn Declaration, the natural, unalienable and sacred rights of man, to the end that this Declaration, constantly present to all members of the body politic, may remind them unceasingly of their rights and their duties; to the end that the acts of the legislative power and those of the executive power, since they may be continually compared with the aim of every political institution, may thereby be the more respected; to the end that the demands of the citizens, founded henceforth on simple and incontestable principles, may always be directed toward the maintenance of the Constitution and the happiness of all.
Hello. My name
is Inigo
Montoya.
You
killed
my
father.
Prepare to die.
Hello. My name is
Inigo Montoya.
You killed
my father.
Prepare
to die.
Hello. My name is
Inigo Montoya.
You killed
my father.
Prepare
to die.
▲ Historic specimen of Les Helvétiques from Berthier & Durey

About Leafy

This subtle textface is designed for easy reading. Loosely transitional in nature, Leafy occupies a space between Jannon & Baskerville. 18th-century style paired with 16th-century proportions and readability. It comes in Latin, Ελληνικά, & Кирилиця.

Leafy takes the rationality and rigidity of Baskerville and tones it down with the angular stress and lower contrast of a late oldstyle face, though more in the style of Jannon than Caslon. The Italic is much more upright as well, which helps to cool it down, as Baskerville’s italic, while pretty, is too fussy in its construction and extreme slant.

The Greek for Leafy is a completely different matter. Many of the Greek typefaces of the late 17th and 18th centuries were not a point at which I wanted to jump off. Instead, I went back to Aldus and worked to both rationalise those forms and bring them into harmony with the Latin.

Leafy was designed on the skeleton of my project for my Master’s course at the University of Reading. However, where Anteater was a postmodern, jagged textface, Leafy is smooth and subtle and builds on my understanding of how to implement optical sizing for smooth, seamless use at all sizes.

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