Lorimer No 2 is a sans family designed for display settings. Narrow letters, tight spacing, and a low x-height make Lorimer No. 2 better suited to display settings than fonts adjusted to work in text settings. Packaging, identities, and headlines are ideal applications for Lorimer No 2.
Designer James Puckett developed Lorimer No. 2 as the result of researching nineteenth-century memorial inscriptions. A condensed sans-serif inscription on a Manhattan burial vault prompted research and experimentation. Research turned up similar letters in American wood type, memorials in an Indian cathedral, and enamelled tiles in the New York City subway. Puckett developed his experiments into a type family with two widths, five weights, and matching italics.About the designer:
Letters, art, and design run in James Puckett’s family. James’ great-grandmother was a librarian and a painter. Her old books instilled James with a love of nineteenth and early twentieth-century American typography. His grandfather and great-grandfather were engineers and stationery engravers. James still uses his grandfather’s drafting calipers to measure letters. James studied graphic design at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC. He developed a love of typography at the Corcoran and wrote a thesis about the development of versatile typefaces as branding devices. James’ thesis was accompanied by James’ second type design project. After graduating with honors James decided to pursue type design full-time. In 2009 he started Dunwich Type Founders in New York City.
This package contains:
Lorimer No 2 Light, Lorimer No 2 Medium, Lorimer No 2 Semibold, Lorimer No 2 Bold, Lorimer No 2 Black, Lorimer No 2 Light Italic, Lorimer No 2 Medium Italic, Lorimer No 2 Semibold Italic, Lorimer No 2 Bold Italic, Lorimer No 2 Black Italic, Lorimer No 2 Stencil, Lorimer No 2 Condensed Light, Lorimer No 2 Condensed Medium, Lorimer No 2 Condensed Semibold, Lorimer No 2 Condensed Bold, Lorimer No 2 Condensed Black, Lorimer No 2 Condensed Light Italic, Lorimer No 2 Condensed Medium Italic, Lorimer No 2 Condensed Semibold Italic, Lorimer No 2 Condensed Bold Italic and Lorimer No 2 Condensed Black Italic
Copyright © 2011 Dunwich Type Founders/James Puckett.
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