Mortier
Coppers and Brasses · Alexandre Saumier Demers · 2021
A two-style display family drawn from the squat, brick-guided letterforms of hand-painted wall advertisements and ghost signs.
About
Designed by Alexandre Saumier Demers, Mortier takes its cue from pre-digital sign painters who used brick courses as a grid for scale and spacing, producing rounded-rectangular forms that suited the physical constraints of working at height on masonry. The family comes in two extremes: Slim compresses words horizontally while Jumbo stretches them wide, and the two are designed to work in combination. Typical applications are price tags, posters and any setting where vintage commercial lettering is the reference.
Classification
Mortier is a display face derived from hand-painted wall advertising and ghost sign lettering traditions, with squat, rounded-rectangular letterforms that are entirely decorative in function and unsuitable for running text.