Stuart Standard Regular Text TLF
Stuart Standard-Regular Text TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Text PLF
Stuart Standard-Regular Text PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Text OSF
Stuart Standard-Regular Text OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Text SC
Stuart Standard-Regular Text SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Text TLF
Stuart Standard-Italic Text TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Text PLF
Stuart Standard-Italic Text PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Text OSF
Stuart Standard-Italic Text OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Text SC
Stuart Standard-Italic Text SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Text TLF
Stuart Standard-Medium Text TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Text PLF
Stuart Standard-Medium Text PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Text OSF
Stuart Standard-Medium Text OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Text SC
Stuart Standard-Medium Text SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Text PLF
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Text PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Text TLF
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Text TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Text OSF
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Text OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Text SC
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Text SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Text TLF
Stuart Standard-Bold Text TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Text PLF
Stuart Standard-Bold Text PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Text OSF
Stuart Standard-Bold Text OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Text SC
Stuart Standard-Bold Text SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Text TLF
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Text TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Text PLF
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Text PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Text OSF
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Text OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Text SC
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Text SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Caption TL
Stuart Standard-Regular Caption TL	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Caption PL
Stuart Standard-Regular Caption PL	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Caption OS
Stuart Standard-Regular Caption OS	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Caption SC
Stuart Standard-Regular Caption SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Caption TLF
Stuart Standard-Italic Caption TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Caption PLF
Stuart Standard-Italic Caption PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Caption OSF
Stuart Standard-Italic Caption OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Caption SC
Stuart Standard-Italic Caption SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Caption TLF
Stuart Standard-Medium Caption TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Caption PLF
Stuart Standard Medium Caption PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Caption OSF
Stuart Standard-Medium Caption OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Caption SC
Stuart Standard-Medium Caption SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Caption TLF
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Caption TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Caption PLF
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Caption PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Caption OSF
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Caption OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Caption SC
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Caption SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Caption TLF
Stuart Standard-Bold Caption TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Caption PLF
Stuart Standard-Bold Caption PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Caption OSF
Stuart Standard-Bold Caption OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Caption SC
Stuart Standard-Bold Caption SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Caption TLF
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Caption TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Caption PLF
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Caption PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Caption OSF
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Caption OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Caption SC
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Caption SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Titling TL
Stuart Standard-Regular Titling TL	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Titling PL
Stuart Standard-Regular Titling PL	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Titling OS
Stuart Standard-Regular Titling OS	$50.00
Stuart Standard Regular Titling SC
Stuart Standard-Regular Titling SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Titling TLF
Stuart Standard-Italic Titling TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Titling PLF
Stuart Standard-Italic Titling PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Titling OSF
Stuart Standard-Italic Titling OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Italic Titling SC
Stuart Standard-Italic Titling SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Titling TLF
Stuart Standard-Medium Titling TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Titling PLF
Stuart Standard-Medium Titling PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Titling OSF
Stuart Standard-Medium Titling OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Titling SC
Stuart Standard-Medium Titling SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Titling TLF
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Titling TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Titling PLF
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Titling PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Titling OSF
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Titling OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Titling SC
Stuart Standard Medium Italic Titling SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Titling TLF
Stuart Standard-Bold Titling TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Titling PLF
Stuart Standard-Bold Titling PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Titling OSF
Stuart Standard-Bold Titling OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Titling SC
Stuart Standard-Bold Titling SC	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Titling TLF
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Titling TLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Titling PLF
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Titling PLF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Titling OSF
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Titling OSF	$50.00
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Titling SC
Stuart Standard Bold Italic Titling SC	$50.00

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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: November 3rd, 2008
Designed by: Matthieu Cortat
Designed when: 2008
Contained in Categories: Legible, Venetian
Design owned by: Nonpareille
MyFonts Keywords: book, book text, clean, elegant, expert, heavy, latin, legible, news, old-style numerals, print, serif, venetian

Stuart Standard

Punchcutters (when types had to be cut, and not just drawn), were working with steel, a strong metal they had to sculpt. They were subject to physical contingencies: each type cast was engraved separatly and, as we move down into the smaller type sizes, the drawing was adapted to new specific data encountered — fine hairlines—hence fragile—need to be reinforced, the curves simplified and the width spacing slightly increased to prevent the ink from clogging up the composition. So, each body size had its own drawing, mostly given by merely physical limits relating to the dexterity and eyesight of the punchcutter… and of the reader, too.

Whereas nowadays it is easier to move from one type size to another, most digital fonts offer us just ONE design, irrespective of the chosen type size. Although computers free us from a lot of the restrictive physical aspects of lead composition, will we not be throwing the baby out with the bathwater and losing an essential subtlety? Where the cutter’s corrections not an integral part of ensuring that a text was properly legible — of its beauty — instead of being no more than a technical defect with which the computer has successfully done away?

The Stuart font restores links to this lost way of doing things by offering three designs for a single font. First of all the Stuart caption, which is suitable for use with type sizes of below 8 points; it has the characteristics of small sizes types: downstrokes and hairlines not particularly marked, wider spacing and solid shapes. On the contrary, at the other end of the scale the Stuart titling, designed for type sizes of over 12 points, has marked downstrokes and hairlines, a narrower width spacing and a certain lightness of shape. Between the two, for type sizes between 8 and 12 points (the most commonly used) there is the Stuart text.

Stuart is designed for graphic design with good resistance for long (in theory literary) texts. Based on a venetian style, with “latin” curves moderated by a strict modernist regularity, it is available for all european languages, and offers a very wide range of signs, like three styles of figures and mathematical signs, small capitals, ligatures, exponent, fractions, etc.

It is available in regular, medium and bold weights, each of them broken down into roman and italic styles.

For general users, it can be bought in “standard” version, divided in OSF (Old style figures) for long texts, TLF (Tabular Lining Figures) for tables, PLF (Proportional lining figures) for titles entirely in capitals, and SC (Small capitals) with lower case replaced by small caps.

For the special needs of precision, subtleties and refinements for graphic and book designers, there is also a more complete "pro" version. All the varieties of the standard version are here folded in one single font. It also provided extra ligatures, superiors, inferiors, and fractions that the standard version do not.

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