THOREAU TYPE
Thoreau is a transitional serif type with some contemporary approach.
Thoreau is based on the Didone genre and it has narrow proportions with a moderate contrast and short ascenders/descenders.
Its design got old style curly details with ball terminals mixed with a modern and geometric structure.
Right now it has only 1 weight and supports most Latin based languages. Thoreau is an OpenType font that contains some standard and discretionary ligatures (more decorative and off by default).
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Texts set in Thoreau font. Click here to see more book cover designs!
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EXCERPT FROM WALDEN,
or Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Headline text in Thoreau Type Regular. Size: actual font sizepx.
Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. [...]
Body text in Thoreau Type Regular.Size: actual font sizepx.
Even though is a still in progress project, Thoreau type is available on request and free of charge for personal or comercial use.
Characteristics:
- 1 Weight
- Narrow proportions
- Moderate contrast
- Short ascenders/descenders
- Old-style curly details
- Standard and discretionary ligatures
- Latin language
- FREE for personal and comercial use