National Trust (typeface)
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Designer(s) | Paul Barnes |
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National Trust is a
National Trust is based on an inscription dated around 1748 on the Stourhead estate, part-owned by the National Trust since 1946.[4] The inscription on which the font is based is an epigram, The Nymph of the Spring, in the grotto beside the lake where a statue of a nymph sleeps, and is in a mostly sans-serif style, one of the first such uses of the style since classical antiquity.
The unusual style of the inscription came to the attention of historians, most famously James Mosley, whose work The Nymph and the Grot on early sans-serif lettering is named after it.[5][6][a] Mosley has concluded that he cannot be certain of the source of the style and that it does not seem to have influenced successors, but that its unusual, simplified structure may be an "exercise in rusticity" related to the spirit of the construction, intended to imitate a natural cave.[5][8][9][10] As the inscription was destroyed by mistake in 1967, it had to be replicated from Mosley's photographs.[5][11]
Being based on the Stourhead inscription makes National Trust a
The four line poem, translated into English from Latin by
Nymph of the Grot, these sacred springs I keep
And to the murmur of these waters sleep
Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave
And drink in silence, or in silence lave.[17][18]
References
- ^ National Trust Brand Standards (PDF). National Trust. 2014. pp. 30–33.
- ^ "New look National Trust magazine rolls out". The Drum. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ "National Trust branding". Luke Charles. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ "The history of Stourhead". National Trust. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
- ^ ISBN 9780953520107.
- ISBN 978-1-84091-649-2.
- Adobe Systems. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ^ "TYPO Berlin 2013: Paul Barnes". Creative Bloq. 19 May 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ a b "The Nymph of the Spring". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Mosley, James. "The Nymph and the Grot: an Update". Typefoundry blog. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ Barnes, Paul. "James Mosley: A Life in Objects". Eye. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ISBN 9780918142016.
- ^ Shaw, Paul. "About More Alphabets review". Blue Pencil letter design. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ISBN 0-300-11753-1.
- ISBN 978-1-58839-487-3.
- ISBN 978-0-300-05167-4.
- ISBN 978-0-300-08911-0.
- ^ Richard Graves (1766). The Festoon: A Collection of Epigrams, Ancient and Modern. Panegyrical, Satyrical, Amorous, Moral, Humorous, Monumental. Robinson and Roberts. p. 108.
External links
- Fonts In Use
- Touching The Past video of a talk by Paul Barnes discussing the design in 2013