Louize
A revival of a revival
Matthieu Cortat's revival of Louis Perrin's 19th-century Augustaux, itself one of typography's earliest revival projects. The family comes in three weights with small capitals for roman styles and ornamental capitals for italics. Display and Display Condensed variants, sharpened for titling, draw on stone-engraved letterforms and include ligatures adapted from lapidary inscriptions.
Set in Louize, Louize Display, Louize Display Cond
Insights
- Perrin's 1846 Augustaux combined Rey's existing lowercase stock with characters Perrin drew himself, an unusually hybrid origination for the period.
- The Display cuts introduce roman-style ligatures referencing concise stone engraving conventions absent from the text weights.
- Small capitals are limited to roman styles; ornamental capitals appear only in the italics, dividing decorative function across styles.
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