Modern Grid Poster
After conducting research through the Adobe Typekit I have made the decision to move forward with the typeface known as “Fairwater” for the modern grid poster. The fairwater collection consists of 11 fonts, but on Adobe Typekit only 9 of the fonts were available to download for free. The complete collection is available for $65.
Designer: Laura Worthington | Type Foundry: N/A | Year: 2016 | Classification: Serif & San Serif.
Designer
Laura Worthington is a typeface designer from Washington State. After training and working as a graphic designer since the mid ’90s, she turned her lifelong fascination with lettering and typography into a business, publishing her first typeface in 2010. She has since published more than 100 typefaces, and designed custom faces for Fortune 500 companies. Laura’s faces are based on her own hand-lettering and calligraphy, a practice she continues to hone daily.
Fairwater History
Fairwater’s aesthetic derives from the cursive handwriting styles popularized in the early to mid-1900s, the simplified, forgiving letterforms of tattoo lettering — and the pictorial themes that informed early-to-mid 20th-century naval tattoos. The Fairwater family includes a script and sans face in three weights, four decorative serif faces and an ornamental font: DIY Lines.
For the non-script and non-serif style known as “Fairwater Sans” come in Light, Regular, and Bold weights as well.
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What Are DIY Lines You Ask?
Powerful decorative fonts that entails: 250 ornamental characters of ships, anchors, oars, knots, rope, botanicals, diamonds, arrows and more. Furthermore, the strokes and proportions perfectly complement the type.
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Ligatures & Glyphs
As with many of these fonts variation that are available there are 465 swashes and alternates to the script version, that include ending forms on all letters, 34 beginning and isolated letters, an unconnected version and contextual alternates.
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Fairwater has multiple combinations of styles and personalities to use when creating posters, greeting cards, banners, and invitations. The different serif, sans serifs, and script styles allow room to play with design choices and hierarchy with how bold and loud, but also dainty and whimsical weights that are available.
