Parry & Parry Grotesque
Parry is a typeface design of Artur Schmal. It began as Schmal's graduation project at Type & Media in The Hague. Inspired by the sturdy typefaces of Edmund Fry and Thorowhood, it came out as a rather traditional, heavy slab serif, complemented by an even heavier condensed variant and a series of sanserif capitals.
As of 2004 the typeface saw further development: First, designing the slab serif that would be suitable for composing longer texts yet retaining the Victorian atmosphere. Secondly, drawing a matching Grotesque, as part of the same family.
Despite its nineteenth-century perfume, Parry is a contemporary type family. It produces a rounder and softer image than the often rigid slab serifs of those times. Some of Parry's design features - like the top serifs - have an outward bulge. And, although such details might be regarded as 'not done', Schmal opted for them, because 'it simply looks good' in combination with sharp-edged bottom of the lowercase c, e and d.
Parry family comes in four weights: Normal, Bold, SemiBold and Black and comprises matching Italics, Small Caps, as well as text figures.
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