About ITC Typados
ITC Typados is composed of characters in two very different senses. First, of course, it’s made up of letters, quite clean, readable, clear letters, with generous widths and x-heights. There is just a hint of Art Nouveau style, perhaps the typefaces of Georges Auriol, in the tapering, brush-like strokes. But the letters in Typados are also made up of characters in the theatrical sense: little tear-drop-headed figures with tapering bodies that bend themselves into the shapes of our alphabet while maintaining a life of their own behind the page. Roselyne and Michel Besnard of Rouen designed ITC Typados based on a continuing character who shows up in Michel’s sculpture and painting: Ado. “Ado is the first character who sings and repeats itself in all my creations,” says Michel. “This adventure brings new forms for my painting and my sculpture: coiffed heads, bodies in the form of a cone, arms in the form of spread wings, etc.” “Type” plus “Ado” and a plural “s” and you have Typados, the typeface. |
