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About the Type
Orpheus Pro
The original Orpheus design by Walter Tiemann, done for Klingspor between 1926 and 1928, was certainly a masterpiece. Unfortunately, like so many typefaces of that inter war era, it was overlooked when type technology changed over to film, and again when digital type came around. But during the decade or so when it was available on the metal type market, it was quite popular in Germany.
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La Bohemienne
La Bohemienne is a graceful modern calligraphy script. It’s Open Type features replicate the personality of handcrafted penmanship. With clean elegant lines, it’s a natural choice for weddings and sophisticated events. This script is designed to mimic handcrafted writing with natural idiosyncrasies. Beautiful, sophisticated, unpredictable and free spirited, her Open Type magic automatically selects the ideal glyph through standard ligatures creating an organic feel. Bonus swashes and botanical flourishes included to elevate your words and are perfect
The surprising genius of Orpheus at the time was how it managed to seamlessly combine an expert vision of the traditional empire caps with a lowercase that precisely injects the efficient rhythm of modern minimalism that was all the rage in Germany at the time, which of course lives on to this very day. Since then, it has been revived with added variations of letters, ligatures, and over 1,000 glyphs.
Recipe by Amanda Batcher Design & Photography by Taylor Allred
for logos and stationery. This font was designed by Crystal Kluge, a hand-lettering artist from the United States. An expanding collection of digital fonts based on her work are used by designers around the globe. She has created custom fonts for Google, Nestle and Neapolitan. Her personal foundry Tart Workshop has received acclaim as Top Fonts of the Year.
