Industry: Design

Besley Shaded

Victorian drop-shadow logic, split into independent layers

Part of Commercial Type's Classics series, which revives historical typefaces. The design draws on nineteenth-century typefoundry practice of producing decorative variants from established letterform categories. A drop-shadow construction separates the interior face from the shadow layer, expanding compositional possibilities.

Set in Besley Shaded

Insights

The shadow and interior are issued as separable components, allowing independent treatment of each layer.
Sits within a program of reviving historical display types rooted in categories such as Fat Face, Egyptian, and Sans Serif.