ITC Deelirious

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The name grows out of the D’s in her name - Dee Densmore-D’Amico Ð and the typeface itself grows out of her distinctive, exuberant hand lettering, which has added character to a wide variety of graphic designs in and around her home base of Syracuse, New York. With an artistic background in fashion illustration, Densmore-D’Amico is creative director at Brandano Displays. Her lettering is an important part of her design work, but Deelirious is her first typeface. The distinction between capital and lowercase letters is sometimes arbitrary in this face, but Densmore D’Amico has used the upper and lower case as a way to incorporate alternate letterforms - always necessary in a typeface derived from handwriting. The fence-like E and the crisscrossing strokes of M, N, and W give a passage in Deelirious the appearance of a thicket of prickly branches.