Jun 7, 2011

karenh:
Back in September 2009, the talented Nancy Harris Rouemy collaborated with Canada Type’s Patrick Griffin to design a special display typeface for use in The New York Times Magazine.
“…the magazine’s design concept revolved around a typeface they created specifically for custom vertical malleability, and that can play just as well in single- or multi-color environments. The result was another iconic commemorative issue that shows exotic tri-line letters merging, swashing, extending and flourishing in stunning gold, silver and blue on black on the cover, and in black on white on the inside pages…”—MyFonts
Crescendo has recently been released as a font set available for purchase, including decorative dingbats, ligatures and alternates. 

karenh:

Back in September 2009, the talented Nancy Harris Rouemy collaborated with Canada Type’s Patrick Griffin to design a special display typeface for use in The New York Times Magazine.

“…the magazine’s design concept revolved around a typeface they created specifically for custom vertical malleability, and that can play just as well in single- or multi-color environments. The result was another iconic commemorative issue that shows exotic tri-line letters merging, swashing, extending and flourishing in stunning gold, silver and blue on black on the cover, and in black on white on the inside pages…”—MyFonts

Crescendo has recently been released as a font set available for purchase, including decorative dingbats, ligatures and alternates. 

crescendo alternate characters ligature

crescendo borders and dingbats

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