AM Tirana

The two original designs have been reunited as a family: Corsica, with its dramatic 20º slant, lives on as AM Tirana’s italic. Regarding references and models, the designer Leo Philp says: ‘I haven’t seen anything with Tirana and Corsica’s crowd of features before. Some can be found in other typefaces: the spurless n, m, u in Dax and its successors, the sharp join of bowl and stem is echoed (much less severely) in Cyrus Highsmith’s Relay. I haven’t seen the sharp, lenticular counters in a sanserif typeface, but I have seen similar forms in letters cut into wood with a router’. ‘Many of my changes feel like necessary adjustments for a wood type’s translation into a digital font,’ remarks Philp of the AM Tirana digital revival. ‘I made optical corrections, the weight of upper and lowercase characters more consistent, and gently harmonised them and the shapes within them. Tirana’s terminals, sometimes oblique, sometimes sheared, were made more systematic, and some characters were redrawn.’ [c-a-s-t.com]