What is the Fairfield® font?
Fairfield is a fifty-year-old typeface that has had a recent facelift. Rudolph Ruzicka, artist and book illustrator, designed light and medium weights of Fairfield for Linotype in 1940 and 1949, respectively. For Fairfield’s 1991 release as an electronic typeface, designer Alex Kaczun added bold and heavy weights.
With its straight, unbracketed serifs and abrupt contrast between thin and thick strokes, Fairfield harks back to the modern typefaces of Bodoni and Didot, but has a distinctly twentieth-century look. More…
Fairfield is a fine text face, both for books and shorter texts. Kaczun added small capitals and old style figures, swash capitals, and a set of “caption” typefaces (sloped roman style) that were inspired by Matthew Carter’s extensions to Oldstyle 7 for National Geographic magazine.
Fairfield® Font families
The Fairfield® includes the following font families:
- Fairfield LT Std Light
- Fairfield LT Std Light Italic
- Fairfield LT Std Medium
- Fairfield LT Std Medium Italic
- Fairfield LT Std Bold
- Fairfield LT Std Bold Italic
- Fairfield LT Std Heavy
- Fairfield LT Std Heavy Italic
- Fairfield LT Std Caption Light
- Fairfield LT Std Caption Med
- Fairfield LT Std Caption Bold
- Fairfield LT Std Caption Heavy
Fairfield® Preview
Here is a preview of how Fairfield® will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
