About ITC Dartangnon
It’s a long shot, but it might just work as a font. That’s what English type designer Nick Cooke thought after he’d doodled a few free-flowing letters with a chunky pencil one day in London. “So many script fonts look too stylized,” he says, “so I thought I’d try to produce one that looks more like handwriting.” Since custom font design occupies a large part of his work on corporate identities (one of them was for the Queen’s frockmaker), Cooke has a lot of experience in turning writing into type. He scanned his doodles and used them in Fontographer as the basis for drawing a set of monoline letters. “Working quickly I soon drew the whole alphabet, and without being too pedantic about the characters joining exactly, I arrived at this script.” ITC Dartangnon displays an enormous amount of energy, but it works at small sizes as well as large. Cooke adds one word of advice: “It is supposed to be used as upper and lowercase only, NEVER just caps.“ |
