Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig is a semi-bold, Clarendon-style slab-serif display font, meant especially for digital media applications like magazine headlines. It has stylistic suitability for a range of other media and applications: posters, music, Western themes, historical documents, protest signs, and religious texts, for example. Leipzig is inspired by an early 20th-century face by J.G. Schelter & Giesecke and named for their city of operation. In accord with the custom of the time, they called it an “Egyptian,” though we now use that term for a different class of slab serifs. I have endeavored to make the face a little more modern, robust, and versatile by removing flourishing tails such as at the bottom of “t” or “a” and other stylistic excesses. “Q”, “g”, and “?” are dramatically changed, as are almost all of the figures.
Leipzig is a semi-bold, Clarendon-style slab-serif display font, meant especially for digital media applications like magazine headlines. It has stylistic suitability for a range of other media and applications: posters, music, Western themes, historical documents, protest signs, and religious texts, for example. Leipzig is inspired by an early 20th-century face by J.G. Schelter & Giesecke and named for their city of operation. In accord with the custom of the time, they called it an “Egyptian,” though we now use that term for a different class of slab serifs. I have endeavored to make the face a little more modern, robust, and versatile by removing flourishing tails such as at the bottom of “t” or “a” and other stylistic excesses. “Q”, “g”, and “?” are dramatically changed, as are almost all of the figures.
