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Ali Baba
Some words from Canada Type:
In 1955, the great German designer Georg Trump designed Palomba for the C. E. Weber foundry.
Making its debut on the digital scene in 2004 under the name Ali Baba, this typeface is made of a rare and daring mix of historical influences. The minuscules have an obvious fraktur background, yet the forms are casual and free of the normal blackletter restraints, almost reminiscent of Celtic calligraphy. The majuscules have the free-flowing swashy elegance of the Renaissance aesthetic, as well some characteristics of broad-tipped pen calligraphy in some forms.
This very interesting mixture of influences creates a totality which upon closer observation reveals itself to have very little in common with any other, yet is categorically placeable somewhere between Frutiger's Ondine and Schneidler's Légende, the sort of letters that have been employed as the standard in desert-related and Middle Eastern design in the western hemisphere since the late 1980s, this time with much more elegance in titling.
Redrawn by Phil Rutter, digitized and expanded to include built-in alternates by Rebecca Alaccari.
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