18pt Garamond italic swashes

Morning, all. Just thought I’d let you know about this week’s exciting job on the Super caster. For a job on the cylinder press, we’ve had to hire the matrices for Garamond 156-18 italic, which also has swash letters, special ligatures etc, and we’d be very happy to cast founts for anyone who’s interested. This way, of course, you don’t have to pay the matrix hire charge :)

The special characters are…
Caps: A B C D E F G H J K M P T U
Lower case: u k m(with long tail) g e(with long tail) ß(German eszett)
Lower case ligatures: is ll tt ij ct st et fr ta as us nt(with long tail) gy zy gg sp
Cap ligatures: Ex Qu Qu(different) QU Na Ne Ni No Nu Ra Re Ri Ro Ru
Long s: ſa ſe ſi ſo ſu ſt ſs ſæ ſſa ſſe ſſi ſſo ſſu

As we haven’t yet cast a fount, we’re not exactly sure how much a fount would cost: at a guess, a quarter fount might be around £35, but that’s just an estimate. I imagine that we can offer founts of 18pt italic with or without a swash fount- I don’t imagine there will be a great demand for long s characters, but we can cast them as sort lines for anyone interested.

Please drop us a line at [email protected] if you’re interested and would like a price, or if you’d like a full list of our other mats.

nick

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Just a quick update: we have a fount scheme for the swashes as follows-

5A 3B 3C 5D 8E 3F 3G 4H 3J 3K 4M 3P 6T 4U
14e 4g 4k 6m 8u 6ß
4is 4ll 4tt 3ij 5ct 5st 4et 4fr 4ta 4as 4us 3nt 2gy 2zy 3gg 4sp
2 each of Ex Qu Qu QU Na Ne Ni No Nu Ra Re Ri Ro Ru

18pt x 24ems sort lines available @ £10 each
Long s ligatures available as sort lines only

The swash fount comes to £30, and a quarter fount (10A 18a) of the italic comes to £80, not including shipping.

If you’re after some Garamond 156 18pt, with swash characters, now is your last chance to order some before we have to return the matrices. [email protected] is the address, as ever.

We’re planning to cast a number of nice display faces in the future, possibly starting with 48pt Floriated Caps (Monotype series 431); if you’ve any suggestions for faces you’d like to see cast, do feel free to let us know.

nick

I know at least one person who is keen on the Gill Floriated. I have a font, and someone covets it.

mjb / interrobang