TypographicaMistral in metal at Salt & Cedar’s delightful shoebox printshop in Paris. Each sort of Roger Excoffon’s masterful writing emulator is cast with an engraved label for easier setting.
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More professional shots of metal Mistral by P98a: https://www.p98a.com/collection/typeface-mistral
Pretty wild that Excoffon started with a disconnected chancery script before he ended up with something much more like 20th-century natural handwriting. Image from “The Development of Mistral.” Typographica 12, 1956.
“The drawings reproduced here include only those of the stages of research between the beginning and the choice of a script of the Mistral type. The documents relating to the construction of Mistral itself have been destroyed, because they were not of any interest as a record.”
: the archivist shudders :
Jesse R Ewing@typographica Holy crap