About ITC Eastwood
Take one old style roman type, then turn it into a pile of little sticks, but keep the classic form of the letters: you might end up with something like ITC Eastwood (named for Clint). At text sizes, it simply looks interestingly rough; at display sizes, it looks like a 16th-century French face seen through a monochrome kaleidoscope. British designer Martin Archer, who now manages a restaurant in Los Angeles, was looking for an ordinary, plain oldstyle typeface with open lowercase letterforms; he ended up using Stempel Garamond as his starting point, although Eastwood evolved well beyond its inspiration. With its semi-inline effect, Eastwood looks like a quick outline sketch by the sort of typographer who can quickly draw an intensely elegant serif typeface in a convincing manner. And who knows how to space it properly, too. |
