Roslindale has a font of its very own

David Jonathan Ross designs typefaces. Since 2017, he's been refining 1 helium calls Roslindale, successful grant of the uniquely named neighborhood.

Roslindale is simply a serif typeface that follows successful the footsteps of De Vinne, primitively published successful the 1890s by the Central Type Foundry and named for the famed nineteenth period printer. It’s an oldstyle that can’t shingle its Victorian sensibilities, with sharp, stubby serifs, bulbous terminals, and the occasional hint of diagonal stress.

In text, you’ll find Roslindale to beryllium stylish and sturdy; successful display, it begins to flirt with the slickness of 1970s De Vinne interpretations similar ITC Bernase.

Ross began looking astatine utilizing De Vinne arsenic the basal for a font of his ain astatine the proposal of Nick Sherman, different typeface decorator with section roots: Sherman erstwhile developed a font called Meatland, based connected the logo of a butcher store successful Jamaica Plain's Jackson Square.

H/t Melanie DeCarolis successful the Jamaica Plain Facebook group.