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Adelphi PE

Adelphi PE

by Rosetta
Individual Styles from $70.00 USD
Complete family of 49 fonts: $390.00 USD
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Adelphi PE Font Family was designed by Nick Job and published by Rosetta. Adelphi PE contains 49 styles and family package options.

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Adelphi PE Complete Family

 49 fonts

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$7.95 USD

Pack of 49 styles:

$390.00 USD

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About Adelphi PE Font Family

Adelphi is a geometric sans, redefined for the northern side of the English Channel.

Typographic modernism was a late arrival in Britain — due partly to the Second World War and to the strong local type tradition. This delay provided for fruitful divergence, thus modernism was not adored in quite the same way as it had been in Germany and central Europe. It was instead rethought and repurposed against the backdrop of the bleak British weather and postwar social reform – a continental fashion statement reshaped into a more humanist variant.

Likewise, when crafting Adelphi, Nick Job reimagined the constraints that defined the geometric sans as a genre. Whereas other typefaces seem overly bound by the rules, Adelphi feels relaxed and approachable. Elementary square and circular shapes are merely implied. A keen observer may notice that the uncomplicated letterforms occasionally reveal a subtle naïveté associated with early Grotesques. Brunel’s bridges and Harry Beck’s tube map spring to mind alongside the Bauhaus and Futura.

But Adelphi is by no means nostalgic! It is a contemporary, comprehensive, and durable system with a pragmatic set of features. These include a wide array of weights, ‘uniwidth italics’, and variable extenders that go from tall and flat in Adelphi Text to short and sharp in Adelphi Display, with default Adelphi standing midway between these two extremes. You can set the extenders to your preference in the all-inclusive variable font or use one of the three static fonts that come packed together, priced as a single font.

The pan-European support for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts already makes for a vast character set, but Adelphi takes things a step further by including alternate glyphs to satisfy the DIN1450 legibility norm, a range of ordinals that can be used to create specialist compositions in all three scripts and two kinds of fractions and arrows. Play with the alternates or use it as-is. Either way, this understated beauty will carry you through.

Designers: Nick Job

Publisher: Rosetta

Foundry: Rosetta

Design Owner: Rosetta

MyFonts debut: Sep 29, 2022

Adelphi PE

About Rosetta

Rosetta is a typeface design studio and font distributor that addresses the needs of global typography. Together with our collaborators, we create original fonts for a polyphonic world. Our research-based practice has been recognized and awarded in the industry. But most importantly it has enabled people to read better in their native language. In addition to the retail type market, we supply tailored font services for small and large companies and provide consultancy for other design studios and font publishers. View the case studies to get a better sense of our approach.

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