Type Love 86: Eames Century Modern

I’m cheer­ing on House Industries for their lat­est and great­est release (and the newest addi­tion to my typo­graphic wish­list). In their own words:
Eames Century Modern is a typo­graphic work­horse that hon­ors the Eames aes­thetic while offer­ing unprece­dented func­tion­al­ity. An eighteen-style serif type­face fam­ily strikes an unprece­dented bal­ance between dis­tinc­tive idio­syn­crasies, read­abil­ity and space econ­omy. Its 18 styles include grace­fully com­ple­men­tary ital­ics and a vir­tu­ally end­less sup­ply of deep text han­dling fea­tures. Carefully-weighted small caps, nine dif­fer­ent fig­ure styles, lig­a­tures, con­tex­tual alter­nate forms and thou­sands of lines of com­puter code give Eames Century Modern a sig­nif­i­cant edge in con­tem­po­rary design envi­ron­ments. A sten­cil font on the heav­i­est weight of Eames Century Modern takes the cur­va­ture of bent ply­wood and abstracts the shapes into type.

Type Love 86

Type Love 86

One Comment

  1. Devin Boyle
    Posted March 31, 2010 at 5:36 pm | Permalink

    That Black is like a mod­ern sten­cil. Very slick.

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