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Reliquaire AOE™

by Astigmatic
Individual Styles from $24.95 USD
The Reliquaire AOE Font Family was designed by Brian J. Bonislawsky and published by Astigmatic. Reliquaire AOE contains 1 styles.

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Reliquaire AOE brings historical elegance into the modern typographic landscape through a careful revival of “Memorial” the typeface introduced by Boston Type Foundry in January of 1881. Originally available with only a limited set of characters typical of nineteenth-century type, the design has been thoughtfully expanded into a far more complete digital character set including unlimited fractions, superiors and inferiors, ordinals, tabular and proportional figures, punctuation, and extended language support. Reliquaire retains the solemn beauty and engraved character of the original Memorial design while providing the flexibility modern designers expect. Its dignified historical personality makes it ideal for editorial design, historical publications, packaging, certificates, and projects that call for authentic nineteenth-century typographic elegance.

Designers: Brian J. Bonislawsky

Publisher: Astigmatic

Foundry: Astigmatic

Design Owner: Astigmatic

MyFonts debut: May 12, 2015

Reliquaire AOE™ is a trademark of Astigmatic.

About Astigmatic

In 1873, the strange and fantastic story began. Nearly two centuries later, Brian J. Bonislawsky was born, and carrying on a mix of the the footsteps his ancestors before him took, he picked up the the traditions and founded the Astigmatic One Eye Foundry, which later expanded to become the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute. (For more of the background story, see the Historical Perspective link below.) Since its founding Astigmatic has worked with dozens of designers, helping them forge their own foundries as well as helping to increase the quality of type created by Astigmatic and these other foundries. Astigmatic strives to continually increase its range of typographic scope; taking on expeditions to revive old typestyles, unearth long lost typefaces, forge new styles yet unseen, and begin to develop more comprehensive language typestyles of the WGL4 set size which includes Greek and Cyrillic extensions. If you are looking for a wide variety of typographic influence and style, the Astigmatic One Eye Institute is your source for type.

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