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Liaisons

Liaisons

by The Ampersand Forest
Individual Styles from $35.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $65.00
Liaisons Font Family was designed by DC Scarpelli and published by The Ampersand Forest. Liaisons contains 2 styles and family package options.

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Liaisons Complete Family

2 fonts

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Per style:

$32.50

Pack of 2 styles:

$65.00

About Liaisons Font Family


A Belle Époque humanist serif in two styles: crisp, high-contrast Haut-Monde and soft, low-contrast Demimonde…

When you design a lot of display pieces, you’re often in need of tall, slim type. Liaisons provides that, in a distinct fin-de-siècle style inspired by the great posters of the Gilded Age from Sweden, Denmark, France, and Scotland. (The ampersand alone is a bit of a love letter to Charles Rennie Mackintosh!)

Both styles use the same slim skeleton, and are named after the stratum of society where one might find… a “dancing partner.”

  • HAUT-MONDE is a high contrast face of the sort that says “High Society.” Elegant and sleek, it speaks to the refinement of the moneyed classes of a bygone era. Great for high-end products, too!
  • DEMIMONDE is soft and low-contrast — more reminiscent of hand-lettering on Art Nouveau/Jugendstil/Wiener Werkstätte advertisements and posters. A comfortably chic display face all around!

Both typefaces feature full Western and Eastern Latin character sets, as well as full Cyrillic/Slavic ones.

And, perhaps best of all, both typefaces feature capitals with high, middle, and low waists, so you can change up the look as you see fit!


Part of The Ampersand Forest's Sondheim Series

Designers: DC Scarpelli

Publisher: The Ampersand Forest

Foundry: The Ampersand Forest

Design Owner: The Ampersand Forest

MyFonts debut: Aug 31, 2022

Liaisons

About The Ampersand Forest

The Ampersand Forest is DC Scarpelli. And probably vice versa. I am a wholly inveterate Type Nerd. I’ve been in love with letterforms my whole life, and, for 16 years, I taught type history, type design, and typography as a college professor. Type is voice, and I love giving people a voice. A variety of voices, actually, so that they can choose whichever one is best for them for a particular context. And I don’t just mean designers, either! Type’s for everyone, and every typeface has a purpose and context.For me, deliciousness—flavor—is key. Not all type has to be “good type,” whatever that means. It should be designed with thought and care and craft. It should be supremely usable. But it should aim beyond usability toward (trust me: this is the right word) yumminess.

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