Please Note: This
typeface is not yet available for purchase to end-users, but specimens
and information are available during its extended, protracted development. Interested parties may contact us regarding custom licenses.
Plantagenet Novus is a completely
revised OpenType edition of Ross Mills’ 1996 Plantagenet typeface. The original
face is being redesigned and expanded
with an extensive typographic repertoire and multilingual character sets
to enable
the refined
setting
of scholarly materials in a wide range of languages.
download/view
the
basic specimen
download/view
the
core glyph set [858K]
nb. this shows the current
full glyphset; fonts may be distributed with subsets of this full glyphset.
Different styles (eg. Italic) will have slightly different glyph compliments
(eg. Swash Capitals rather then titling alternates).
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©2007 Tiro Typeworks
and Ross Mills
Plantagenet and Plantagenet Novus
are Trademarks of Tiro Typeworks.
Last Update: 22 September, 2007
| Mills
drew his inspiration for Plantagenet (1996) from Neoclassical typefaces,
especially those of John Baskerville and Pierre Simon Fournier. This edition
retains the calmness & rationality of those models, but also incorporates
heterogeneous influences. |
Plantagenet Novus looks towards Renaissance forms to enhance readability—with each letter having a more Humanist stress. Cumulatively, the letterforms have an organic, forward-flowing rhythm that counteracts the vertical stress dictated by Neoclassical forms. |
| Plantagenet
Novus is an OpenType font with extensive language support which includes
most European languages, including Greek as well as support
for many North American Native Languages such as Coast Salish
orthographies, Lakota and Dakota, Cherokee script and IPA support. |
There are also a great deal of typographic features : small capitals, titling capitals, swash italic capitals as well as a considerable compliment of ligatures. Also available will be a new set of ornaments, which can be used singly or combined into complex patterns. |
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General
{More to come}
OpenType
Features
Plantagenet
Novus contains a repertoire of OpenType features including:
Standard
Ligatures
Discretionary
Ligatures
Small
Capitals
Titling
Capitals
Swash
Italic Capitals
Ornaments
Fractions
Superior
lowercase & Numerals
