Automatic Swash activation in ARS Descendiaan Roman Italic — avoiding a clash between the ‘R-swash’ and the ‘y’.
ARS Descendiaan Roman - design refinements & revisions.
Some of you asked about the existence and a preview of ARS Descendiaan Sans. It has been on & off in the works for the past 10 years — and to be previewed here for the first time.
gf ligature from ARS Descendiaan PRO Roman.
ARS Descendiaan (here you see the Italic) is used in several pages through out the new book I Wonder by Marian Bantjes, among other typefaces and beautiful artwork and custom typography by Bantjes. This is great news and I can’t wait to get my own ordered copy, so I can review it with my own eyes. And I’ll share some more pics of course! :)
Be sure to order your own copy, because this certainly looks like a book that should be held and felt in your hands.
The Dutch translation of Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full. Set in ARS Descendiaan. (Published by Prometheus, 1999)
Joan Hanger published this small poetry book about dreams. Set in ARS Descendiaan using the older (unpublished) italics—circa 1997.
An older promotional book about the Swedish writer Kerstin Ekman, using ARS Descendiaan throughout. Notice the first (unpublished) version of the Italics. (Bert Bakker Publishers, 1999)
ARS Descendiaan in use for Nabokov
Marian Bantjes designed this beautiful Nabokov book cover using the font ARS Descendiaan. Read more about it here. (foto by Marian Bantjes)
