![]() Upon numerous demands of highly esteemed users of our fonts I decided to supplement the Walbaum type family by display and poster cuts. In the summer of 2002 we inserted all of this “into the machine” and designed new italics. Nevertheless, Juvenis with its new proportions far exceeds its original purpose. The original intention to create a type face for printing children’s books thus became even more emphasized. ![]() Towards the end of 2001 the author presented a pile of tracing paper with dozens of variants of letter forms, but mainly with a new, more contemporary approach: the design is more open, the details softer, the figures and non-alphabetical characters in the entire set are more integral. This type face also shows the influence of Jaroslav Benda, evident in the open forms of the crotches of the diagonal strokes. In 1979 Tyfa returned to the idea of Juvenis, modified the letter “g” into a one-storey form, narrowed the design of the characters even further and added a bold and an inclined variant. The type face had a large x-height of lower-case letters, a rather economizing design and one-sided serifs which were very daring for their time. ![]() Tyfa published a sans-serif alphabet under the title Juvenis already in the second half of the past century. But, of course, it would not be Josef Tyfa, if he did not redesign the entire alphabet, and to such an extent that all that has remained from the original was practically the name. Designs of characters that are almost forty years old can be already restored like a historical alphabet – by transferring them exactly into the computer with all their details. ![]()
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