Description
Filmotype Wand was introduced in 1955 as part of the Flat Serif category. Inspired by smart slab serifs including Hellenic Wide — popular in American television westerns and in heavy use in corporate letterhead and store packaging — Filmotype Wand takes a more modern approach with more rounded forms for higher readability.
Charles Gibbons developed period-authentic Cyrillic and Greek letterforms while paying close attention to linguistic details to assure accurate forms for native language readers. Filmotype Wand supports over ninety languages including Russian and modern Greek and localized forms especially for setting Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish, Romanian, and Turkish.
Filmotype Wand was developed and expanded from the original font filmstrips and includes language specific stylistic alternates, automatic fractionals, full European language supported ordinals, an expansive set of alternate contextual and case-sensitive forms, as well as a complete complement of ligatures and full scientific inferiors and superiors in dynamic OpenType format.
Design, Publisher, Copyright, License
Design: Charles Gibbons
Publisher: Oddsorts
Copyright 2015 by Charles Gibbons. All rights reserved.
Charles Gibbons
Charles Gibbons (b. 1967, Lynn, MA) received an MFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Gibbons spent much of the nineties as a designer for the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and later as assistant professor of Graphic Design at the University of Wisconsin / Stout where he taught typography and publication design. In 2001, he joined the Library of Congress as the chief designer for the United States Copyright Office. In 2015, he set up Oddsorts.
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Typefaces: Bradley, Filmotype Western, Filmotype Wand
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