Baltra®

from Galapagos

Baltra® is a Galapagos font family with 1 style priced from $39.00.

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Baltra GD

Baltra GD

$39.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 1st, 2000
Designed by: Dennis Pasternak
Designed when: 1996
Contained in Categories: Decorative & Display, Engraved
Design owned by: Galapagos
MyFonts Keywords: copperplate, decorative, engraving, headline, latin, narrow, tinyserif [suggest]

Baltra

After researching the type styles contemporary graphic designers have been using over the past few years, I noticed a consistent use of Copperplate Gothic, and its derivative designs, for various corporate advertising campaigns.

That level of usage gave me the inspiration to design a display font possessing subtle characteristics of Copperplate Gothic, and various Latin Condensed designs. The font I ended up designing was semi-condensed, with more contrast between thicks and thins than in Copperplate. Baltra also has a subtle flair in its otherwise traditional lowercase, while possessing a larger than average lowercase x-height. Copperplate Gothic, on the other hand, has minimal contrast and uses small capitals for its lowercase.

After examining extensive type specimens from wood type, metal type, phototype and digital type, I was not able to find a single design possessing a majority of Baltra’s characteristics. Consequently, I consider Baltra to be a truly unique design, sharing with Copperplate Gothic only its flairs on stems, and having only subtle characteristics in common with traditional Latin designs.

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