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Thorowgood Sans from HiH Thorowgood Sans is a HiH font family with 1 style priced from $8.00. Click the Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: November 10th, 2009
Designed when: 1839
Design owned by: HiH
Originally created by: Fann Street Foundry
MyFonts Keywords: 1800s, English, open shade, retro, revival, sans serif, shaded
Thorowgood Sans Shaded
A three-dimensional all-cap font for title use, Thorowgood Sans Shaded was released by the Fann Street Foundry of W. Thorowgood & Co. in 1839. Interestingly, it more closely resembles Figgins' Four-Line Emerald Sans-Serif Shaded of 1833 than Fann Street’s own Grotesque Shaded of 1834 (with light and shadow reversed).
The idea of a shaded font is of an outline font whose letters have each been extruded through a die and then viewed from the lower right to reveal the third dimension. That third dimension has also been referred to as a shadow. Vincent Figgins' 1815-release of a shaded serif typeface was the first known of many shaded faces, as the other foundries rushed to bring out their own versions.
Thorowgood Sans Shaded may be gainfully used today as a eye-catching headline font, just as it was so popularly used in the early nineteenth century. To assist with the usual all-cap letter-spacing problem, the following pre-kerned pairs are included: AT, AV, AW and AY.
Be sure to download the Type Specimen showing the full character set, as well as a sample text. Live large - use it boldly.
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