RICHLER

Roman, Italic, Bold, Small Caps Hand Tooled, Dingbats

Designed by Nick Shinn, 2001 ShinnType 364 Sunnyside Avenue Toronto, Ontario M6R 2R8 Tel. (416) 769-4198 nick@shinntype.com

The Richler Ty p e fac e

M.R.

THE RICHLER TYPEFAC E was commissioned in memory of Mordecai Richler and created by Canadian type designer Nick Shinn. It will be used exclusively by Random House Canada and The Giller Prize. R i c h l e r is an original face, full of personality in the details, yet smooth in the composite effect. Up close, each letter is a study in thematic style, with a subtle, rmly crafted, slightly offbeat quality that mocks both artful pretension and mindless conformity. R i c h l e r is an open, evenly spaced book face designed for sustained reading at text size, in the mass. At display sizefor titling and signageit is animated by ne details, which are derived from the seminal inuence of the broad pen on the classic types. Taking its cue from the ingenious Post-modern tour de force that is Barneys Version, the R i c h l e r typeface fuses present-day structure with traditional skill: its metrics (especially the mechanical rhythm of vertical strokes) are derived from the technical sans serifs such as DIN, which are the dominant trend in contemporary typography.

Criteria A book face, that is to say, a serifed face with classic construction and a nely detailed nishsuitable for extended reading. Five styles in the family: Roman, Italic, Bold, small ca p s, and H A N D TO O L E D. This enables the setting of the full range of text in a novel. The typeface contains the ne details necessary for it to also work as a display face, in posters, brochures and collateral material for the Giller Prize, and for book covers. There is also a set of 10 dingbats, representing items associated with the author.

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The Fo n ts
Regular

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q RST U V W X Y Z ab cd e f g hi j k l m n o p q rs t u v w xy z 0123456789($ -?!.,:;*)[@&] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789($ -?!.,:;*)[@&] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrst u v w xy z 0123456789($ -?!.,:;*)[@&] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q RST U V W X Y Z ab cd e f ghi j k l m n o p q rs t u v w xy z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ($ - ? !.,:;* )[@ & ] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q RST U V W X Y Z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 9 ($ - ? !.,:; * )[ @&]

Italic

Small Caps

Bold

Hand Tooled

Dingbats

ABCDEFGHIJ
A B C D E F G H I J

Richler Roman

Roman

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Spooling
Spooling Spooling

minion

richler

din

MORSEL MORSEL MORSEL

Traditional capitals (e.g. Minion, top) have contrasting curved and straight forms, and a variety of character widths. The Richler capitals (centre) have curved characters that tend towards the square, and an evenness of width, akin to the technical sans serifs such as DIN (below).

In traditional book faces such as Minion (top), the sidebearings of round letters are narrower than those of the straight, producing a modulated rhythm. Richler (centre), with its squarish curved characters and their wide sidebearings adopted from the contemporary sans genre (e.g. DIN, below)has the repetitive beat of today.

Richler Italic

Italic Roman

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I TA L I C S . The caps and gures of the Richler Italic are by and large based on the Roman caps. The lower case letters however, are derived from the classic chancery cursive forms used most notably by Herman Zapf in Aldus and Palatino, Carl Dair in Cartier, and Ro b e rt Slimbach in Minion. The squareness of this form, and the even metre of its strokes, complements these characteristics of the Richler Roman. In fact, as in the Roman, I have really emphasized these traits, especially the openness and regularity of the metricsnote in particular the g, v, and w.

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Richler Bold

Bold Regular

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BOLD. If the x-height of the bold were, in absolute terms, exactly the same as that of the regular weight, it would appearin text settingto be smaller. This is because the human eye judges size primarily on the basis of area, not linear height, and the counters (the negative, enclosed white space within the letters) are signicantly smaller in the bold characters. For this reason, the xheight of Richler Bold has been made slightly larger than that of the Regular, so that it appears to be the same size.

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Richler Small Caps

Small caps Regular

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Small Caps. En masse, the small caps have the same weight as the lower case; they are also slightly taller and narrower. As with most all-cap settings, it is usually a good idea to space out the small caps, as shown in the side-head of this paragraph. The Figures. In the Richler typeface, the regular font has old style, proportional width gures 1234567890. The small caps font contains lining, monowidth (tabular) gures1234567890. These gures are slightly shorter than the cap height.

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ca p i ta l l ow er c as e sma l l ca p

Ro m a n

ABCDEFGHIJKLM N O P Q RST U V W X Y Z ab cd e f g hi j k l m n o p q rs t u v w xyz 0123456789 & * @ [ " ' ? ! . , : ; ] ( $ ) _ - \ | / { # = + < > ^ ~ % }

I ta l i c

ABCDEFGHIJKLM N O P Q RST U V W X Y Z a b c de fgh i j k l m no p q rstuvwxyz 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 9 & * @ [ " ' ? ! . , : ; ] ( $ ) _ - \ | / { # = + < > ^ ~ % }

Bold

ABCDEFGHIJKLM N O P Q RST U V W X Y Z ab cd e f ghi j k l m n o p q rs t u v w xyz 0123456789 & * @ [ " ' ? ! . , : ; ] ( $ ) _ - \ | / { # = + < > ^ ~ % }

Small Caps

ABCDEFGHIJKLM N O P Q RST U V W X Y Z abcdefghijklm n o p q rst u v w xyz 0123456789 & * @ [ " ' ? ! . , : ; ] ( $ ) _ - \ | / { # = + < > ^ ~ % }

Hand To o l e d

ABCDEFGHIJKLM N O P Q RST U V W X Y Z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 9 & * @ [ " ' ? ! . , : ; ] ( $ ) _ - \ | / { # = + < > ^ ~%}

D i n g b ats

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