ABC Estragon
Dinamo Typefaces · Dinamo (Fabian Harb, Daniel Chessari) · 2017
A 19th-century ornamental wood-letter display redrawn in 2017, with three combinable styles (Wildstyle, Arrow, Bubble).
About
An ornamental wood-letter display by Fabian Harb and Daniel Chessari, redrawn from a circa-1890 Harrild & Sons specimen for contemporary use. Three distinctive styles, Wildstyle, Arrow and Bubble, can be freely mixed at the level of individual characters, alongside a base cut, across six weights from Thin to Heavy. Sam de Groot used it on the identity for Condo New York and described it as Schwitters-meets-Wildstyle.
Classification
Dinamo describes Estragon as a redrawing of an ornamental headline wood type from Harrild & Sons' New & Abridged Specimens of Wood-letter (circa 1890), spotted on @typeTFA, with three combinable styles (Wildstyle, Arrow, Bubble) plus matching weights.