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P22 Wedge

P22 Wedge™

by IHOF
Individual Styles from $24.95
Complete family of 3 fonts: $49.95
P22 Wedge Font Family was designed by Bruce Rotherham and published by IHOF. P22 Wedge contains 3 styles and family package options.

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P22 Wedge Set

3 fonts

Best Value!

Per style:

$16.65

Pack of 3 styles:

$49.95

About P22 Wedge Font Family


Wedge’ is the outcome of a search for the essence of a formal alphabet for text — for 26 letters of the simplest form consistent with ease of reading.. Noted New Zealand architect Bruce Rotherham (1926–2004) was inspired by Herbert Bayer’s ‘universal alphabet’ created at the Bauhaus in 1927. While he admired Bayer’s pure geometry, Rotherham felt it was ‘virtually unreadable’. The Bauhaus-inspired inclination for architectural publications to use sans serif faces provoked Rotherham to consider how a readable Roman book face might be approached using some of Bayer’s same principles of simplification, but also retracing the evolution and use of the Roman form in an analytic manner. The Wedge alphabet was started in 1947 when Rotherham was an architecture student at the University of Auckland. It was worked on and refined over several decades but never commercially released, until now. Over sixty years after it was first conceived, Wedge is available from P22.

Designers: Bruce Rotherham

Publisher: IHOF

Foundry: IHOF

Design Owner: IHOF

MyFonts debut: Apr 5, 2014

P22 Wedge™ is a trademark of International House of Fonts.

About IHOF

International House of Font (IHOF) is a type boutique showcasing distinctive type designs and designers from around the world. While still technically part of P22 Type Foundry, IHOF offers a wider range of styles from single fonts to a mega-font families with a focus on historically inspired designs. Designs include historical revivals but also original designs from a range of contemporary type designers.

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