Type West Online, Term 1, Spring 22
Emancipada
Anita Lavalatina
Type revival of Jost Mediaeval Antiqua, originally designed by Heinrich Jost for the Ludwig & Mayer Foundry. Emancipada contains an important number of Glyphs that allows it to be used in different languages and a stylistic Character set with a few variations. Emancipada is a Variable Font with to weights: Regular and Halbfette
I found the especimen of this Typeface in the online Letterform Archive. I used the scans to do the digitalization. During my research process I did some tracing excersice to understand the shapes, the investigation and the compararon with another similar typefaces of the same age, helped me to have a more clear idea of the real form of the letters, cleaning up the ink spread that exist in the specimen
Anita Lavalatina
Graphic designer from Bogotá - Colombia / Letterforms lover since 2018 / I like palindromes
