About ITC Kallos Medium
A text family with a strong, traditional calligraphic flair, ITC Kallos was created by Phill Grimshaw, a typeface designer from Manchester, England, who specializes in handlettering and script-style display faces like Zaragoza and Zennor. ITC Kallos is the result of Grimshaw’s first foray into the realm of text faces. Grimshaw has instilled in ITC Kallos traditional values and a calligraphic feel that are reminiscent of the kind of type designs created years ago for private presses. The lowercase characters display long ascending and descending elements that lend a look of sophisticated elegance and accomplished calligraphy. ITC Kallos has classically roman capitals as well as what Grimshaw refers to as “romanized” italics, in which he has taken out superfluous serifs (i.e. there are no baseline serifs). The capitals take on the unmistakable influence of the pen but as an added bonus have the proportions of classic inscriptional forms. The result is a truly magnificent and unique set of capitals that perfectly complement the lowercase letters. The family comes in three weights: book, medium and bold, with matching italics. |
