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Minuscule™ from 256tm Minuscule™ is a 256tm font family with 10 styles priced from $140.00. Click a Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information for a particular group of fonts, or see purchase options for the entire family. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: December 26th, 2007
Designed by: Thomas Huot-Marchand
Designed when: 2007
Contained in Categories: Legible, Slab Serif
Design owned by: 256tm
MyFonts Keywords: efficient, ink traps, large eye, legible, news, OCR, optical sizes, serif, slab serif, small sizes, specialized, text
Minuscule
Minuscule was inspired by Émile Javal’s research into the physiology of reading. He was a 19th-century opthalmologist, the first to analyze how we read.
Minuscule characteristics are large x-height, robust slab serifs, vertical stress, open structure, big counters, low contrast.
Minuscule is a typeface for extremely small sizes, and can be used under the commonly acknowledged threshold of legibility (around 7 points). At this stage, the loss is so important during the shift to a lower size that I quickly decided to design a master for each size. Five versions have been developed, optimized for a use in 6 (Minuscule Six), 5 (Minuscule Cinq), 4 (Minuscule Quatre), 3 (Minuscule Trois) and 2 pts (Minuscule Deux).
Minuscule received the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club New York, in the TDC2 2005 Type Design Competition (category Text).
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Related Links
• Type Directors Club 2005: Minuscule (English)
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