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DT Partel

DT Partel

by Dragon Tongue Foundry
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DT Partel Font Family was designed by Scott Spensley and published by Dragon Tongue Foundry. DT Partel contains 1 styles.

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About DT Partel Font Family


DT Portal:

This stylised, partially serifed font, made with a slightly rounded square form, may have been inspired initially by old cathode ray tubes and computer screens. Although not intended to be purely a ‘tech’ font, it can have a strong tech feel to it. More suited to being a headline font than body text.

It also appears to have a monospaced look to it, since most letters, (other than letters like ‘i, l and t’), do have the same width.

There is some automatic contextual shape adjustment happening in places, to avoid taking up too much space, so contextual ligatures should be turned on.

As is the case with most of my fonts, when given the choice, ‘metric’ spacing should be used in preference to ‘optical’.

Initially this font was going to be called ‘DT Portal’, because its form was similar to that of a window or doorway. But due to other fonts already having that name, I chose to rename it as ‘DT Partel’, for no reason other than it is only a very small change visually.

Designers: Scott Spensley

Publisher: Dragon Tongue Foundry

Foundry: Dragon Tongue Foundry

Design Owner: Dragon Tongue Foundry

MyFonts debut: Mar 1, 2022

DT Partel

About Dragon Tongue Foundry

Dragon Tongue Foundry. Scott Spensley from New Zealand, is the overall designer of all Dragon Tongue fonts. The foundry of Dragon Tongue came in to being around 40 years ago, to be a source of new music and graphic design ideas. The first real high quality digital font from this Foundry was created around 20 years ago. It was a digitised version of Scott’s wife’s calligraphy. It was stunningly good, and admired by all who saw it. It was never released. Sadly, after the his wife passed away from cancer, and multiple hard-drive crashes, the font was lost, and there are now no versions of it remaining. Dragon Tongue shut down for a period of time, but recently, with extra spare time created by Covid and lockdowns… the Foundry has re-awoken, and is focused totally on creating exciting new fonts, in multiple styles. Some of the current style directions are, Serif and San-Serif, Handwriting and script, hand drawn period, Art-Deco to 80’s, from serious high quality to funky and fun, extending the range of known font styles, and exploring modern adaptable fonts using contextual ligatures and Stylistic alternatives, swashes and ‘smart’ letters that adapt to their neighbours and position in a word or sentence. We aim to craft fonts that feel ‘clever’, as if it knows what the writer wants of it. Fonts that add a little bit more than a standard font does. In some cases, fonts that feel natural and alive. Feel free to check out some of his fonts that are yet to be released, at https://www.dragon-tongue.com/fonts

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