BC Vajgar

The Vajgar typeface is Oldřich Menhart’s only poster typeface. The Vajgar typeface was created in 1961, commissioned by the Stráž printing house in České Budějovice and is actually a model for subsequent engraving into linoleum. It could be characterized as a narrow gothic-antiqua, a historicizing typeface with one-sided wedge serifs whose form was derived from calligraphy carried out with an unyieldingly wide and flat writing instrument, either a pen made of reed or a cut piece of wood. Vajgar’s fresh and lively draftsmanship is perfect for use in headlines—the characters fit together nicely. Continue reading the full story: BC Vajgar

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Typeface Design: Tomáš Brousil, Petra Dočekalová
Text: Tomáš Brousil, Petra Dočekalová
Number of fonts in a family: 1 (Regular)
Number of glyphs per font: 472
Release date: 2022
OpenType features:
Access All Alternates (aalt)
Glyphs Composition / Decomposition (ccmp)
Localized Forms (locl)
Superscript (sups)
Fractions (frac)
Ordinals (ordn)
Lining Figures (lnum)
Oldstyle Figures (onum)
Case Sensitive Forms (case)
Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
Slashed Zero (zero)
Stylistic Set 1 – Authentic Uring (ss01)
Stylistic Set 2 – Horizontal Hyphen (ss02)
Stylistic Set 3 – Alternate J (ss03)
Stylistic Set 4 – Alternative ampersand (ss04)
Required Ligatures (rlig)
Standard Ligatures (liga)