When deployed tactically, Penumbra inspires the sort of terror or awe you can count on from a font like Serif Gothic but naturally, in all-caps. Regardless, probably none of those versions were the ones you were looking for. Penumbra was serialized as a sans, a serif, as a flare, and then as a ‘half serif’ opentype font eventually. I discovered Penumbra while reading a pdf about typotheque’s History which is something of a serialized version of penumbra: you get serifs or you get stems and you get to mix and match them however you like.
Lance Hidy’s Penumbra MM is probably the greatest victim of all the multiple master fonts that were abandoned by adobe in the mid 90s with the switch to opentype.Īn inscriptional, all-caps font, Penumbra feels old! But, oddly enough, it also has an oddly contemporary feel to it, perhaps because all-caps inscriptionals are quite vogue right now, with a touch of serif, or not, or just heavy bold text.
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