MegaMegaTypeType
A book serif from Jeremy Tankard designed for continuous reading, with a display variant and swash details that lend themselves equally to exhibition and branding work.
About
Kingfisher offers eight styles spanning Display, Regular and Heavy weights, each with an italic, giving typographers the range needed for complex book typography. The display optical cut and swash details extend its usefulness beyond the page into exhibition and identity contexts. Its stately proportions and refined detailing make it one of the more considered British book faces of recent decades.
Classification
A book-oriented serif with stately proportions, swash details and a display optical variant, placing it firmly in the humanist serif tradition suited to continuous reading.
Weights
RegularBoldHeavy
Optical sizes and widths
DisplayText
Languages
Latin
Tags
serifbookhumanistelegantdisplayswasheditorialbranding