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dolly pro
10.5pt / 5.25pt
song of the summit The difference is nothing you can see - only the dressed edge of the air over those stones, and the air goes deeper into the lung, like a long fang, clean as magnesium. Breathing always hollows out a basin, leaving nothing in the blood except an empty cup, usable for drinking anything the mind finds - bitter light of bright darkness or the cold corner of immesurable distance, this is what remains: the pitted blood out looking for the vein, tasting of the tempered tooth and vanished flame. - Robert Bringhurst
introduction Dolly Pro was first released in 2001 as a set of postscript fonts in roman, italic, small caps, and bold weights. With the purpose of being used as a book typeface with flourishes. Conceived by the Dutch/Finnish collective, Underware, an independent type company founded in 1999. Underware was founded by Akeim Hemlig, Bas Jacobs, and Sami Kortem채ki. Based in Den Hagg, Helsinki, and Amsterdam. The three designers met at the KABK, The Royle Academy of Art, The Hague. Underware is a design studio that specializes in designing and producing typefaces. Conventional in terms of legibility, yet contain concepts that seek new visual, typographic, and linguistic possibilities.
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dolly pro Dolly Pro is a low contrast, serif book typeface, it is not based on old type, but instead a completely modern invention. Perfectly legible at text sizes, it is softer, chunkier and is more suited to modern printing processes. When applied in larger sizes, Such as book covers, more crisp details of dollys odd angles and curves will become visible. These four fonts provide a healthy palette for solving most problems found within book typography, therefore, The family does not consist of hundreds of fonts.
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dolly pro regular Dolly Regular is most appropriately used for long text, easily legible for running paragraphs in small sizes and provides a neutral voice for any body of text. 15.25pt / 10.5pt
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26.25pt / 12.25pt
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dolly pro regular italic Dolly Regular Italic is lighter in colour than Dolly regular, it should be used to emphasis words within a body text. 15.25pt / 10.5pt
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dolly pro bold Dolly Bold is darker in colour that Dolly Regular and should be used in a similar manor to that of Dolly Regular italic. 15.25pt / 10.5pt
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dolly pro small caps Dolly small caps is intended for setting whole words, they match the Regular in weight and have figures that line with the x-height. 15.25pt / 10.5pt
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surface anatomy Dollys low contrast strokes gently modulate, almost brushy in form, they follow with a Dutch calligraphic tradition. With roots in sturdy 17 óš Ś century book faces that grew from delicate 16óš Ś century french types. But Dolly has a contemporary personality of its own. It’s softer, chunkier and more suited to modern printing processes. Designed specifically for books and optimized for screen.
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