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Wessex®


Wessex® is a Font Bureau font family with 5 styles priced from $40.00.

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Wessex®


Wessex RomanPurchase Options
  Wessex Roman Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Wessex Roman Small CapsPurchase Options
  Wessex RomanSmallCaps Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Wessex Roman TitlingPurchase Options
  Wessex RomanTitling Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Wessex ItalicPurchase Options
  Wessex Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Wessex SemiboldPurchase Options
  Wessex Semibold Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 1st, 2000
Designed by: Matthew Butterick
Designed when: 1993
Design owned by: Font Bureau
MyFonts Keywords: none [suggest]


Wessex

Initially conceived by Matthew Butterick as a Bulmer revival, Wessex took on characteristics of Baskerville and Caledonia as design proceeded.

In 1938, W.A. Dwiggins had taken the hard necessities of the non-kerning line-caster italic duplexed onto the same widths as roman, and turned them into design virtues.

Inspired by the surprising beauty of his wide-bodied Caledonia italic, Butterick used it as a model for Wessex.


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 • Font Bureau: Wessex Sample PDF (English)

‘Wessex’ is a registered trademark of The Font Bureau, Inc. and its respective designers.



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