This Ancient Rome-Inspired Typeface Continues a 600-Year Conversation
Martina Meier's font Konrad uses archetypal elements from Gothic lettering and modern Roman text to retrace the evolution of type.
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Martina Meier's font Konrad uses archetypal elements from Gothic lettering and modern Roman text to retrace the evolution of type.
Alphabet - Alphabet - Greek, Etruscan, Roman: As already mentioned, the original Etruscan alphabet consisted of 26 letters, of which the Romans adopted only 21. They did not retain the three Greek aspirate letters (theta, phi, and chi) in the alphabet because there were no corresponding Latin sounds but did employ them to represent the numbers 100, 1,000, and 50. Of the three Etruscan s sounds, the Romans kept what had been the Greek sigma. The symbol that represented the aspirate later received the shape H as it did in Etruscan. I was the sign both of the vowel i and the consonant j. X was ad...
Designed by Martina Meier and published by Nouvelle Noire, NN Konrad draws inspiration from the first roman font designed in 1465.
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