Pearl

Pearl wanted to be a micro from its first badly-drawn letter. I was reading Fred Smeijers at the time; He introduced me to Pierre Haultin’s body of hastily cut romans and as a point of contrast put up the rationale behind Linotype’s “Legibility Group” or Matthew Carter’s Verdana: Text for small sizes needs a loose fit, room to breathe. ‘But does it?’ Fred counters. With the first twenty or so letters of my stripling italic I was off to find out. [futurefonts.xyz]