Mrs Eaves Diana Marianovsky Published 2017 Type Design
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H h
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k L
l M m N n
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j K
O o P p Q q R r S
s T
t U u
V v W w X x Y y Z z & Mrs Eaves XL Reg 24 Mrs Eaves Roman (Ornaments) 24
Stylistically, Mrs Eaves is a revival of the Baskerville typefaces cut for Baskerville by John Handy. Like Baskerville, Mrs Eaves has a near vertical stress, departing from the old style model. Identifying characters, similar to Baskerville’s types, are the lowercase g with its open lower counter and swash like ear. Both the roman and italic uppercase Q have a flowing swash like tail. The uppercase C has serifs at top and bottom; there is no serif at the apex of the central junction in uppercase W; and the uppercase G has a sharp spur suggesting a vestigial serif.
Pi5 Mrs Eaves Roman 92
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Mrs Eaves Bold 40
NO quinoa Mrs Eaves XL Heavy Italic 138
Mrs Eaves Petite Caps Reg 60
Panic! at the Disco Mrs Eaves Italic 31
Mrs Eaves is a transitional serif typeface designed by Zuzana Licko in 1996. Mrs Eaves was released by Emigre, a type foundry run by Licko and husband Rudy VanderLans. It is a variant of Baskerville, designed in Birmingham, England in the 1750s. Mrs Eaves adapts Baskerville for use is display contexts, such as headings and book blurbs, through the use of a low x-height and a range of unusual combined characters or ligatures.
Mrs Eaves XL 128
Mrs Eaves XL 80
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Licko’s design is unorthodox and not a pure revival. In creating it, she was influenced by how it would be printed by contrast to printing in Baskerville’s time: considering the flatness of offset lithography in comparison to letterpress printing, and the resolution of set devices and on-screen display. The overall stroke weight of Mrs Eaves is considerably heavier than most other revivals, countering the often anemic reproduction of smaller point sizes in other digital revivals of Baskerville, and restoring the feeling of letterpress printing’s unpredictability. To compensate for this and create a brighter-looking page, Licko lowered the x-height, reducing the amount of space taken up by ink on the page.
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