About ITC Kendo Package
ITC Kendo suggests the dash and verve of quick, sketchy calligraphy by a confident hand, throwing off splatters of ink all over the paper. The hand is confident, but calligrapher Phill Grimshaw was deliberately working against his own habits, drawing the letters “with slow deliberation” with a pointed pen. He overloaded the pen with ink and drew on coarse paper, “applying a lot of pressure at the beginning of a stroke and easing off towards the terminals,” says Grimshaw. “Accidental splashes occurred frequently owing to the nib catching the 'tooth' of the paper.” Turning the written letters into a typeface meant refining those splashes into a feature that didn't overwhelm the type, and that wouldn't leave an obvious white stripe of unsplattered space between lines when the type was set with extra leading. The initials can be used by themselves, or combined with the normal upper- and lowercase letters. Grimshaw gave the font a full set of f-ligatures, plus a couple of extra ligatures (Th and ry), and he added unruly splashes as bullets and a decorative end-of-line ornament. |
