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Overbold

Overbold

by Catharsis Fonts
Individual Styles from $32.00 USD
Complete family of 2 fonts: $32.00 USD
Overbold Font Family was designed by Christian Thalmann and published by Catharsis Fonts. Overbold contains 2 styles and family package options.

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    Overbold Complete Family

    2 fonts

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    Per Style:

    $16.00 USD

    Pack of 2 styles:

    $32.00 USD

    About Overbold Font Family


    Overbold is an unapologetic display typeface inspired by an illustration in Eric Gill's Essay on Typography (p.51), in which he demonstrates �how not to make letters�. In particular, he shows that increasing the weight of the downstroke in a serif �A� without structural adjustments yields an absurd, �overbold� result. I found the letter so charming that I decided to blatantly disregard Gill's wisdom and draw an entire overbold typeface. Here is the result. I'm not sorry.

    Designers: Christian Thalmann

    Publisher: Catharsis Fonts

    Foundry: Catharsis Fonts

    Design Owner: Catharsis Fonts

    MyFonts debut: Aug 9, 2019

    Overbold

    About Catharsis Fonts

    Catharsis Fonts is a one-man font foundry run on a hobby basis by astrophysicist Christian Thalmann, currently based in Zürich. Apparently this description needs to be at least 350 characters long, so here are some extra characters: Characters characters characters characters characters characters characters characters characters characters characters characters characters characters characters characters.

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