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Hermanz Titling

Name: Hermanz Titling
Brand: California Type Foundry
SKU: 6204970
Price: 47.00 USD
Availability: InStock

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About

Hermanz™ Titling is inspired by the most majestic caps that Hermann Zapf ever drew. They are inscriptional caps, square caps, or “capitalis monumentalis”. These caps are some of the most beautiful letters made by one of the greatest talents of our time; so beautiful they deserve to be seen and appreciated by everyone.

If you do any work for churches, wedding, funeral, anniversary, or other ceremonies, for the fine arts, exclusive clubs, or higher education—you will love how these letters make your designs look.

Hermanz Titling works for anything labeled "fine": fine dining, fine music, fine art (pamphlets, books, posters, cookbooks). It also fits well for religious topics: posters, events, websites, hymnals, for biblical; and ceremonies, religious or otherwise.

Emotions It Can Communicate: • Importance • Timelessness • Special Event • Tradition • Reverence • Artistry • Beauty

Released June 4 2021, On the 6th Year Memorial of Hermann Zapf, as part of the California Type Foundry Memorial Series: Honoring the life and work of the great font designers.

FONT STORY The Majestic Caps

When I was on one of my visits to rare books rooms I found some large caps of Hermann Zapf, and I knew that I had to make a font inspired by these.

I was surprised that no one had ever made them into a font. They were some of the most beautiful caps I had ever seen.

These caps were surprisingly difficult to make. I thought it would take me a week or two; to get the detail and spirit right took significantly longer– but it was well worth the effort!

Here’s why it took so long...

I used a technique I call Font Sfumato*. This technique is inspired by how ink spreads on the page, but also Leonardo da Vinci’s technique on the Mona Lisa, and Michelangelo’s sculpting technique.

Practically speaking, this means that there are no computer-drawn straight lines in the font. Each straight line has subtle curves.

When a font designer uses this technique, you can get weird artifacts like jagged curves or “inflections”. So what I had to do was sculpt and sculpt and sculpt each curve until it looked just right.

When you print Hermanz Titling on a page, you will see what I mean. Even when printed digitally, it’s the closest thing to letterpress. You might even have some people thing it was printed by a traditional method with ink! (Note: Unless printed at very large sizes, this font is not recommended for actual letterpress, because the serifs are too thin.)

If you do any work for churches, wedding, funeral, anniversary, or other ceremonies, for the fine arts, exclusive clubs, or higher education—you will love how these letters make your brochures, pamphlets and announcements look.

Enjoy this breathtaking font, and may it help inspire people with your messages! –Dave & the California Type Foundry

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