BC Monument

In 1949, Oldřich Menhart was the graphic designer of publication “Satyr”, a set of lithographs by Max Švabinský accompanied by poems by Victor Hugo, for the Sfinx publishing house. He calligraphed the title page and several dividing pages in a majestic shadowed capital letters. This work was so warmly received by the expert community that even Jan Tschichold called on him to develop this study into its own typeface. So in 1950, Menhart completed the design of the Monument typeface, which was released in 1953 by the Grafotechna type foundry in four sizes: 24, 28, 36 and 48 point. Monument’s letterforms were designed for extraordinary book titles and ceremonial diplomas. Continue reading the full story: BC Monument

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Typeface Design: Tomáš Brousil, Petra Dočekalová
Text: Tomáš Brousil, Petra Dočekalová
Number of fonts in a family: 3 (Regular, Base, Inline)
Number of glyphs per font: 265
Release date: 2022
OpenType features:
Access All Alternates (aalt)
Localized Forms (locl)
Superscript (sups)
Fractions (frac)
Ordinals (ordn)
Lining Figures (lnum)
Oldstyle Figures (onum)
Case Sensitive Form (case)
Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
Stylistic Set 1 – Authentic Uring (ss01)
Stylistic Set 2 – Horizontal Hyphen (ss02)
Stylistic Set 3 – Alternative Ampersand (ss03)