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Reaper BT

Reaper BT

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Reaper BT Font Family was designed by Thomas Oldfield and published by Bitstream. Reaper BT contains 1 styles.

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    About Reaper BT Font Family


    Thomas Oldfield’s typeface, Reaper, is reminiscent of inscribed Greek letterforms but he claims that its origin is much simpler than that. “I recall”, Tom says, “that I just began the design by making the uppercase ‘I’ and continued using it to make up the other characters.” The cap only typeface has alternate cap forms in the lowercase positions, including a vastly scaled downed O and Q that make for some unusual text settings. Contrary to what the name might have you believe, there’s a lot of life in this quirky typeface.

    Designers: Thomas Oldfield

    Publisher: Bitstream

    Foundry: Bitstream

    Design Owner: Bitstream

    MyFonts debut: Nov 5, 2002

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    About Bitstream

    Bitstream is known among type enthusiasts and professionals alike as being one of the companies that lead the way towards the democratization of type. For centuries, the type world had been the exclusive domain of skilled typographers who worked large, cumbersome presses. With the birth of digital type though, came a revolution in the industry that enabled Bitstream, one of the first digital type foundries, to help grow the desktop publishing industry. The company’s founders shared a vision in whi...

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