About ITC Coventry Thin
ITC Coventry is what type would look like if you left a gothic font out in the rain, says Cleveland designer Brian Sooy, who designed this three-weight family. “If you look close, you'll see the roots of a handsome sans serif font buried under a layer of grime and rust, basically.” Sooy found his inspiration for Coventry in the roughly produced student flyers that he saw in the Coventry section of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Coventry gives the impression of something that's been faxed or photocopied several times. “While it looks very irregular in text, it's very carefully spaced to give that effect. Too regular and it would look that way, too little and it would resemble a fifteen-dollar font from one of the many foundries that have sprung up across the net.” Sooy intends the face to work both in text and in headlines, even on billboards. “If it has any historical reference, it's a very short history. I wasn't attempting to mimic any grunge fonts, I was attempting to create a font that stylistically appeared distressed but remained highly legible,” he added. |
