Font Specimen – Melancholie Serif

Melancholie is based on the popular font Adobe Garamond. The font family consists of lines with medium contrasts and unbracketed serifs. The angles for the brushes are inclined to the left.  It is a classic font, but the unbracketed serifs make it elegant. Melancholie can be used in books, magazines, for poetry and for headlines, if you use uppercase letters.

To make the font, I created the letters in Illustrator and later used the plugin FontSelf for kerning and to create the Open Type Font file (OTF). In my font specimen I finally present how the font was made, its characteristics and how it looks like in use.