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Prenton Regular & Italic

BluHead Studio · Roy Preston

sans-serifhumanist sansitalic
Prenton Regular & Italic specimen from BluHead Studio

A two-font package pairing a clean upright sans serif with a hand-drawn italic, both supporting extended European characters and multiple figure sets.

About

Designed by Roy Preston, Prenton offers a straightforward sans-serif construction suited to both screen and print. The italic is hand drawn rather than mechanically slanted, lending it a warmth uncommon in utilitarian text faces. Each font includes proportional, tabular and old-style figure sets, a range of f-ligatures, and ct and st ligatures.

Classification

A clean, upright sans serif with a hand-drawn italic, suggesting humanist construction rather than geometric or grotesque. The emphasis on legibility and drawn forms points to humanist sans-serif traditions.

Weights

RegularItalic

Languages

Latin

Tags

humanistsans-seriflegibletextscreenprintoldstyle-figuresligatures

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