![]() What was born was Perpetua, named after the Christian martyr Vibia Perpetua. The point of the font was not to be a revival of anything, but rather, something original, with ‘roman letters most appropriate for book reading’. To quote: “…The fine serif is not in origin calligraphic but epigraphic not written but sculptured.” One might be surprised to find that Morison had always intended to ask sculptor and stonemason Gill to make the typeface instead of a calligrapher, because he believes a sculptor is more suited for the job.
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