Successor
RELEASED BY:
Commercial Classics,
Available in the Commercial Type Vault ☞
DESIGNERS:
Tim Ripper
RELEASE DATE:
Week 02, 2023
DETAILS:
• A faithful take on the 19th century Egyptian.
• Available as a family of 16 fonts, 8 weights of roman and italic styles.
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From the Foundry:
“The slab serif was one of the great inventions of the type foundries of the 19th Century with its bold and impactful appearance. Successor takes the work of the key players; Caslon, Figgins, Thorowgood, Blake & Stephenson, Austin and smaller more obscure foundries and creates a compendium of the style. Expanding into new territories with a full range of weights from Thin to Black with matching italics, Tim Ripper has created a design that feels convincingly accurate yet also with the needs of todays users. Perfect for text and display, screen and print.”
NOTES:
Commercial Classics has published Successor in the Commercial Type Vault. Successor, designed by Tim Ripper and available as a family of 16 fonts (8 weights of roman and italic styles), puts true Commercial Classics design ideologies on show. It's billed as a 'faithful take on the 19th Century Egyptian" — providing a sense of familiarity and modernity to the stoically iconic form. It's a new generation slab family with a wonderfully old soul.
There’s little to nit-pick about in Successor, as is the case with most Commercial Classics releases. There’s also very little information given about the family online or on the Commercial Type sites, which I hope will change one day. I’d love to know more about the source material drawn from for Successor. You can almost feel the wood and heft of a piece of type in the bold weights. Drain the physical weight from the characters and you’re left with a rather beautiful, slender design that retains its old-world charm. It’s great to see these older styles published still, and with such care.