ITC Legacy Square Serif Pro
June 10, 2013Rounding out my ITC Legacy family is the square serif version, begun as pencil sketches on tracing vellum. I worked alternately over specimens of the serif and sans, with the square serif concept being my hypothetical interpolation between the two styles. Final sketches, scanned and brought into Photoshop for editing, allowed me to work in a manner similar to that of pre-computer days, before moving to Fontographer.
At a microscopic level, the serif corners create a very strong definition to the edge of the baseline, x-height and cap height, giving it a crisp color on the page; the two degrees of bracketing and tapering of some serifs prevent it from being overly assertive. The diagonal humanist stress creates interlacing between letters, and along with the serif asymmetry, produce a forward momentum, a feeling of warmth, humanity, readability, and legibility on both paper and screen. Sentences are like a braided rope, rather than a chain of beads; they are like music, instead of being the mere repetition of sounds. In text sizes the font does not assert itself as a square serif, since it is not seen as that style, meshing perfectly with the serif. But at display sizes it is definitely a square serif.
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