Bery Tuscan
TYPE BY · Fred Smeijers, Pierre Pané-Farré · 2012
A digital revival of Jean Gabriel Bery's 18th-century Parisian tuscan stencil letters, drawn by Fred Smeijers and Pierre Pané-Farré from just sixteen surviving stencils.
About
Based on the capital stencil set Bery supplied to Benjamin Franklin in 1781, the design features acanthus-leaf strokes ending in rounded, bifurcated serif-tendrils. Smeijers and Pané-Farré extrapolated a complete uppercase alphabet from only sixteen original stencils, translating the slanted originals into an upright configuration and producing what is claimed to be the largest glyph set ever assembled for a tuscan typeface. Released in 2012 as part of the Stencil Fonts Series, it sits alongside Bery Roman and Bery Script as historical revivals rooted in a long French stencil tradition.
Classification
A historical revival of Jean Gabriel Bery's 18th-century tuscan stencil letters, characterised by bifurcated serif-tendrils and acanthus-leaf motifs; firmly display in category due to its ornamental, decorative letterforms unsuited to continuous text.