What is the Ashemore™ font?
Ashemore developed as a result of my visits to Barcelona, Spain and to Germany, followed soon after by a visit to Asheville, North Carolina. Blending the styles of art and architecture from these three areas may seem initially to result in an unusual formula, but the distinct and flamboyant style of Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts style combined with the more strict rules of a sans serif transfer well into a beautiful and very usable blend of these individually eccentric forms. The resulting font retains the Art Nouveau and Craftsman style flavors, which shine through the typeface despite its geometric base. More…
One of the font’s defining characteristics is the unique terminators of its C, G and S. This face’s texture and rhythm also moves well in longer texts. These and other features give Ashemore a restrained bohemian vibe that seems particularly appropriate for a coffee house or an art gallery.
The Ashemore family has a full range of six weights from thin to black and includes condensed and extended options for a total of 36 fonts. The typeface also includes some unique OpenType alternates that make the superfamily even more versatile. Ashemore is equipped for complex professional typography, including alternates, small caps and many alternate characters. The face also has a number of numeral sets, including tabular figures, fractions, old-style, lining figures and superiors and inferiors. OpenType-capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe Suite can take full advantage of automatic ligatures and alternates. You can find these features demonstrated in the .pdf brochure.
Ashemore also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages, including Central, Eastern and Western European languages. In all, Ashemore supports over 40 languages that use the extended Latin script, making the new addition a great choice for multi-lingual publications and packaging.
Ashemore was designed by Jeremy Dooley with production assistance from Lucas Azevedo and Marcelo Magalhaes. Kerning assistance from iKern.
Ashemore™ Font families
The Ashemore™ includes the following font families:
- Ashemore Condensed Thin
- Ashemore Condensed Thin Italic
- Ashemore Condensed Light
- Ashemore Condensed Light Italic
- Ashemore Condensed
- Ashemore Condensed Italic
- Ashemore Condensed Medium
- Ashemore Condensed Medium Italic
- Ashemore Condensed Bold
- Ashemore Condensed Bold Italic
- Ashemore Condensed Black
- Ashemore Condensed Black Italic
- Ashemore Normal Thin
- Ashemore Normal Thin Italic
- Ashemore Normal Light
- Ashemore Normal Light Italic
- Ashemore Normal
- Ashemore Normal Italic
- Ashemore Normal Medium
- Ashemore Normal Medium Italic
- Ashemore Normal Bold
- Ashemore Normal Bold Italic
- Ashemore Normal Black
- Ashemore Normal Black Italic
- Ashemore Extended Thin
- Ashemore Extended Thin Italic
- Ashemore Extended Light
- Ashemore Extended Light Italic
- Ashemore Extended
- Ashemore Extended Italic
- Ashemore Extended Medium
- Ashemore Extended Medium Italic
- Ashemore Extended Bold
- Ashemore Extended Bold Italic
- Ashemore Extended Black
- Ashemore Extended Black Italic
Ashemore™ Preview
Here is a preview of how Ashemore™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
