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Joos

Posted on June 10, 2013 by

Joos is a revival of an upright italic created in 1536 in Gent. This work is not a formal revival but it faithfully fits into the scheme of Joos Lambrecht (punchcutter), which was to idealize roman types by bringing together the characteristic graceful shapes of italics and the angularity of romans. In order to make the character optically vertical, it was necessary to work on each character with a specific angle, which was defined by its structure and dimension. Capitals have geometrical vertical stems while the lowercase letters have an angle which varies between zero and two degrees.

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