ITC Florinda

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Luis Siquot found the inspiration for ITC Florinda in Rob Roy Kelly’s American Wood Type: 1828 - 1900, a fertile source of display types ripe for revival. Kelly thought, when he published the book in 1969, that although the 19th-century type designs were finding new uses in the work of contemporary graphic designers, they were doomed to obsolescence. Siquot, on the other hand, finds that the unlimited possibilities of digital type give these old designs a whole new life. Siquot, who also designed ITC Juanita, learned the nuts and bolts of digital type design by digitizing several typefaces from American Wood Type, of which ITC Florinda is the first to be finished for international use. To a modern eye, Florinda looks like Franklin Gothic with bumps: a quirky effect at display sizes, and at text sizes legible but looking as though the words were crossed out with a fine line through the middle.