Sybarite is a fat-face that works at any size. Capitals with sweeping curves and sharp, unbracketed serifs command attention while charming minuscules expose the amiable side of its demeanour.
Sybarite is James Puckett’s revival of the fat-face type that appears in the 1829 specimen of Alonzo W. Kinsley’s Franklin Letter Foundry. Kinsley’s was a very short-lived and unprofitable business, opening in 1825 (some sources say 1829) and ended in 1832 upon Kinsley’s death.
High-contrast typefaces like Sybarite have thin hairlines that translate poorly to scalable digital type. A hairline thin enough to remain a hairline at large sizes disappears at smaller sizes. And a hairline serif drawn for small sizes turns into a slab-serif at large sizes. Solving this problem requires the creation of optical weights; fonts tuned for a certain size range, just as they existed in the era of metal type.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:
Sybarite Small, Sybarite Medium, Sybarite Large, Sybarite Huge, Sybarite Small Italic, Sybarite Medium Italic, Sybarite Large Italic and Sybarite Huge Italic
Copyright © 2011 Dunwich Type Founders/James Puckett.
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