Artisinal

About Artisinal

Artisinal, not to be confused with the term artisanal, is our revival of the Art Deco typeface known as Cubist Bold, by John W. Zimmerman for Barnhardt Bros. & Spindler in 1929, breathes new life into a classic. The original metal cast typeface was designed without a lowercase, as well as some wedge serif capitals that made for not always perfect pairings.

We've created a lowercase that blends well with the original design to give the typeface more usability. We've also created a fully sans version of the capitals as the default set, and moved the original wedge serif capital styles to a contextual alternates feature. We've also created a few stylistic alternates for lowercase characters like the u and y and their accented styles.

See the 5th graphic for a comprehensive character map preview.

Opentype features include:

- Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions.

- A Standard lining figure set.

- A collection of basic f Ligatures.

- Stylistic Alternates for variations of several characters such as u and y.

- Contextual Alternates for the original wedge variations of capitals that will mix in where appropriate.

Approx. 448 Character Glyph Set: Croft comes with a glyphset that includes standard & punctuation, international language support, and additional features