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Bradley

Bradley

by Oddsorts
Individual Styles from $29.00 USD
Complete family of 3 fonts: $58.00 USD
Bradley Font Family was designed by Charles Gibbons and published by Oddsorts. Bradley contains 4 styles and family package options.

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Bradley Pro Package

3 fonts

Best Value!

Per style:

$22.00 USD

Pack of 2 styles:

$44.00 USD

About Bradley Font Family


Oddsorts is delighted to present Bradley Wayside and Bradley Chicopee as its début offerings. Begun in 2000 as a wedding gift for the designer’s wife and used privately for years, they’re finally available to the public. The fonts were inspired by the masterful art nouveau lettering of Will H. Bradley, whose posters for Ault & Wiborg printing inks and Victor Bicycles continue to draw collectors after more than a century. Wayside and Chicopee expand the twenty-odd characters Bradley drew into a comprehensive multiscript system that includes modern Greek and extended Cyrillic alphabets, ordinals, automatic fractions, and ornaments. Bradley Wayside and Chicopee derive much of their charm from an organic mix of shape and spacing intrinsic to hand drawings. Mimicking that spirit in type used to mean painstaking substitution and adjustment of characters. The Bradley fonts make imaginative use of OpenType’s power to achieve the same effect — minus all the work. Wayside and Chicopee contain alternate forms for every letter — up to seven for some characters. Part of what makes these Bradley types delightfully “smart” fonts is that the fonts themselves actually choose the variation best suited to a letter’s place in a word. All you need to do is turn on your software’s “Ligatures” or “Contextual Alternates” option and the Bradleys do the rest. The alternates even work in most word processors. Bradley Wayside and Chicopee are available in “Standard” and “Pro” editions. The Pro editions sport all the bells and whistles, including the alternates. They support over one hundred forty languages and include localized forms especially for setting Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish, Romanian, and Turkish. The Standard editions are geared toward casual use and are ideal for license as webfonts, where streamlined character sets mean faster load times.

Designers: Charles Gibbons

Publisher: Oddsorts

Foundry: Oddsorts

Design Owner: Oddsorts

MyFonts debut: Jan 31, 2015

Bradley

About Oddsorts

Oddsorts is the imprint of type designer, teacher, and graphic designer Charles Gibbons, who produces award-winning fonts for retail and custom clients. Chuck has partnered with such notable type foundries as Bitstream, Cultivated Mind, Device, Filmotype, Sideshow, and Tart Workshop — sometimes in the limelight and sometimes behind the scenes — to create technically innovative, linguistically inclusive, user-friendly fonts. His types grace book covers, packaging, greeting cards, film titles, museum façades, and even the seal of the United States Copyright Office. They appear in textbooks, have been awarded the Type Directors Club Certificate of Typographic Excellence, and even frequent MyFonts’ bestseller lists.

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