Apris
Schick Toikka · Florian Schick, Lauri Toikka
A contemporary Latin serif with concave, pointed serifs and acute trumpet-bell terminals, drawn in six weights from Thin to Black with matching italics.
About
Apris is a present-day reading of the 19th-century Latines genre (also known as Renaissance- or Etienne-Schriften, Latin and Runic, or Celtic). Concave serifs, shoulders that taper to a point and long-drawn unseriffed terminals give it a sharp, almost prickly silhouette. The italic follows an inclined-roman model with no cursive or narrowed shapes, in line with the historical precedent that Latines rarely had a true italic. The family spans six weights from Thin to Black with matching italics: lighter cuts can signal luxury and loftiness, the medium cuts read as self-evident shop-sign and nameplate type, and the Bold and Black get funkier with overtones of 1970s display typography. Stylistic Sets offer monocular alternates for a and g and an R with a pointed leg.
Classification
Schick Toikka frame Apris as a contemporary take on the 19th-century Latines genre, marked by pointed serifs and capitals of harmonised widths, with concave serifs, acute trumpet-bell or thorn-like terminals and shoulders that taper to a point.