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Willow (typeface)
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ITC Willow
ITC Willow was designed by Tony Forster in 1990. Although a contemporary typeface, Willow is the reminiscent of the Scottish Arts and Crafts style made popular by painter and social reformer Jessie Marion KingJessie Marion King
Jessie Marion King was a Scottish painter and illustrator mostly of children's books. She was married to E. A. Taylor....
(1875–1949), and architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had a considerable influence on European design...
(1868–1928) of the Glasgow School
Glasgow School
The Glasgow School was a circle of influential modern artists and designers who began to coalesce in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1870s, and flourished from the 1890s to sometime around 1910. Representative groups were: The Four , the Glasgow Girls and the Glasgow Boys...
. The face is based upon a sign for the Willow Tea Room, one of three tea rooms in Glasgow designed by Mackintosh. The typeface is distinct for the double crossbars on the uppercase A and H, and the unusual design of the uppercase O, which is raised above the baseline, with two dots centred beneath the bowl.
Willow Regular
Willow Regular was designed by Joy Redick in 1990, and is part of the Adobe OriginalsAdobe Originals
The Adobe Originals program began in 1989, when Sumner Stone hired Carol Twombly and Robert Slimbach to create a new series of type families for Adobe Systems. At the time, the desktop publishing revolution was in full swing, and designers had a growing need for high-quality digital fonts. The...
Woodtype Collection.
See also: Samples of display typefaces
Samples of display typefaces
The list of samples of display typefaces summarises the principal fonts used in screen display of characters. The accurate identification of display typefaces is critical in graphic design, web design and forensic computing.-See also:...