The article concerns the revitalization of the sixteenth-century typeface and its digitalization into a computer font. Research on historical prints in which Nowy Karakter Polski occurs is presented. The paper describes main problems of design process related to the reconstruction of characters from historical prints, and the addition of new glyphs necessary in the character set of modern font. A significant part of the design work concerned decorative alternate letters.
The author discusses the process of creating the Bona Nova font family. The starting point of the project was the existing Bona typeface, originally created in the 1970s and manufactured as metal type. The project started with a digital revival of the old Bona typeface design, which was followed by the creation of new Regular and Bold variants to create a functional workhorse font family. This new Bona Nova family was supplemented with several display and titling styles. The result was released digitally in the OpenType font format.
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