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Manhattan

Alex Lescieux · Alex Lescieux · 2021

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Manhattan specimen from Alex Lescieux

A narrow American serif after the 1892 Howland, imagined as a corporate face for the artist Letha Wilson.

About

Manhattan started as a speculative corporate typeface for Letha Wilson, drawing on American type and landscape. Its main source is Howland, cut by the Dickinson Type Foundry in 1892, reworked in a simpler, digital way rather than as nostalgia. One medium weight with seven stylistic sets.

Classification

A narrow, low-contrast serif after Howland (Dickinson Type Foundry, 1892), simplified for digital use.

Weights

Medium

Languages

Latin

Tags

serifrevivaldisplayheadlinebrandingcondensed

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