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River Liffey

River Liffey™

by Proportional Lime
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Complete family of 4 fonts: $19.99
River Liffey Font Family was designed by Shane Brandes and published by Proportional Lime. River Liffey contains 1 styles and family package options.

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River Liffey Family

4 fonts

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$4.99

Pack of 4 styles:

$19.99

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$19.99

Per style:

$5.99

Pack of 2 styles:

$11.99

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$5.99

Pack of 2 styles:

$11.99

  • River Liffey Bold River Liffey Bold

  • River Liffey Bold Italic River Liffey Bold Italic

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$5.99

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$11.99

  • River Liffey Bold River Liffey Bold

  • River Liffey Bold Italic River Liffey Bold Italic

Per style:

$5.99

Pack of 2 styles:

$11.99

About River Liffey Font Family


This typeface was inspired by a typeface used by James Williams an Irish printer active in Dublin during the late 18th century, who was heavily involved in the book trade and offered such tomes as Hume’s “History of England.” He aggressively tried to undercut the London publishers by offering quality reprints. Copyright law then was not as strong as it is now. Early books, have a mysterious rhythm to the appearance of the text, due to small variances in letters caused by casting irregularities and ink transfer from the press. This very supposed defect, which is presented in this typeface, is a pleasing effect against the sterile regularity of modern printing technology. This font has been updated, May 2011, to Version 2.0 expanding the original character set by over 60% to 900+ characters and also adding the possibility of bold type.

Designers: Shane Brandes

Publisher: Proportional Lime

Foundry: Proportional Lime

Design Owner: Proportional Lime

MyFonts debut: Jul 15, 2009

River Liffey™ is a trademark of Proportional Lime Type Foundry.

About Proportional Lime

Proportional Lime Type Foundry is a second floor operation that is overrun with a bird, cats, and unpleasant levels of heat, some of which is generated by the obsolescent machinery, and the rest enforced by the laws of thermodynamics. The bird owns the cats. And the cats own the humans. However, even considering the aggressive nature of the bird's endless commentary, and the cat's intermittent proofreading sessions, work is still routinely accomplished, and the goal of creating historically influenced typefaces achieved. We at PLTF desire to create typefaces that accurately recreate the feel of the old printing technologies for use in the modern world and also to explore novel designs.

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