Icarus Typeface preview

Icarus Typeface preview
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Production information:

Program(s): Adobe Illustrator CS5
Working Time: countless hours
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Here's a preview of Icarus, a robust Garalde typeface which should be suitable for anything ranging from magazines to books to newspapers. Icarus also comes with Icarus Sans (a.k.a. Iapyx) and Icarus Blackletter (a.k.a. Daedalus), though I'm not yet certain if I will follow the direction I took for Daedalus.

The concept for Icarus came when I was designing a typeface strictly based on certain angles (ranging from 76° to 79°) which you can still see back in the serifs. The typeface was designed as such that the imaginary guidelines of one letter would flow smoothly into the guidelines of the next letter with the correct spacing. I realized that with many letter combinations the kerning would ruin that concept, so at a later stage I started to ignore those angles all together. Despite the failure of the initial concept I was left with a template for a beautiful typeface to be.

"In Greek mythology, Icarus is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus. The main story told about Icarus is his attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. He ignored instructions not to fly too close to the sun, and the melting wax caused him to fall to his death. The myth shares thematic similarities with that of Phaëton — both are usually taken as examples of hubris or failed ambition — and is often depicted in art."~Wikipedia

Icarus will come in the following weights (all will include small-caps and italics):
Thin, Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, Black
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Click on 'download' to download a PDF containing all glyphs designed so far