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ITC Avant Garde. Ronaldson is available as a desktop font and a Web font. On April 29, , Simone Chisena uploaded to the WhatTheFont forum a scanned two-page spread from a s Italian gardening book, asking for the identity of the face Ronaldson - This digital version of Ronaldson revisits the original sizes, where some of the letter forms v Font Bros is your source for unique display fonts!
Ronaldson is a serif font family. Things became much clearer when keen American metal type enthusiast and very much an expert on the subject Stephen O. Saxe provided us with many scans and further information about Alexander Kay from his archive of an old American trade magazine called the Inland Printer. Thanks to them, this digital version of Ronaldson feels more like the pleasant melancholy that comes at the end of a global party, rather than a simple collaboration on a typeface design.
We hope you discover its unique qualities with your audience as well. Download Now. Rise And Shine Font Download. P22 Declaration Font Download. The forms that were originally cut in display sizes are included in this digital version as alternates. The metal Ronaldson was only a roman style in different sizes.
There was a sloped oblique version that was mostly deemed unworthy of being a counterpart to the roman, so there were plenty of instances where other old style italics were used with it instead. But even in those instances, the italic always seemed loose and clunky compared to the attractive color and evenness of the roman. In this digital version, a brand new italic was made, as well as a bold weight. Roman and bold small caps were also added, along with oldstyle, tabular, superior and inferior figures, and fractions of both the vulgar and nut varieties.
Then plenty of ligatures and extra alternates were added. Ronaldson is available in all popular font formats. The roman and bold faces contain nearly characters each, and the italic font contains over characters.
Pre-digital type history being what it is, relying mostly on word of mouth and documents that were lucky enough to survive wars, industry shifts and migrations of entire populations, it was quite difficult to track down the exact history or designer of Ronaldson Old Style. Things became much clearer when keen American metal type enthusiast and very much an expert on the subject Stephen O.
Saxe provided us with many scans and further information about Alexander Kay from his archive of an old American trade magazine called the Inland Printer. Thanks to them, this digital version of Ronaldson feels more like the pleasant melancholy that comes at the end of a global party, rather than a simple collaboration on a typeface design. We hope you discover its unique qualities with your audience as well. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
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