font_designer: Peter Fraterdeus

Prospera was designed without reference to existing roman faces. In its initial form, development was partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (Design Project Grant), as a design for...

These six faces are interpreted from examples shown in Rob Roy Kelly’s “American Wood Types” They are not merely scanned copies, but have been redrawn from scratch with various optical adjustments. Kelly points out...