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7 style + Variables
Notable Characters
It’s still Arnold Böcklin, except now it’s good.
Some of Böcklin’s more illegible letters have been reconsidered for the contemporary reader.
All characters designed with love and pain.
Arny gets goopier as it gets heavier, like the slugs in my garden.
Typetester
Features
Alternate m n r u
[ss01]
Original Letterforms H I N t
[ss02]
Simplified VXY
[ss03]
Uppercase simplified contextual alternates
[calt]
Localized forms
[locl]
Case sensitive punctuation
[case]
Subscript and superscript
[sups, subs]
Arbitrary fractions
[frac]
About Arny
Stuttgart, Germany, 1904: the type foundry of Otto Weisert releases “Arnold Böcklin”, a display typeface capitalizing on the style du jour, Art Nouveau (or Jugendstil in Germany). It makes little cultural impact and is a commercial flop.
A few decades later during the ‘60s–‘70s Art Nouveau revival craze, Böcklin is rediscovered in an old specimen book and becomes an instant hit. It is re-released multiple times, first as photo-type, then again during the early era of digital fonts.
Bôcklin remains popular and is still the Art Nouveau font archetype. But despite its appeal, there is a lot about Böcklin that could be better. That’s why I made Arny.
Arny has been redesigned from the ground up, weighing every detail and vastly improving on original drawings. It contains a range of weights, features and language support, all sorely lacking in older versions.
Arny is the fourth generation of Arnold Böcklin, and in my biased opinion, the best by far. Because of Arny’s balanced texture, refined details, and added flexibility, its iconic spirit can shine all the brighter.