“Designed by Jonathan Hoefler beginning in 1995. A burlesque
typeface in the Regency Blackletter style, Parliament
was inspired by the ‘Four-line Pica Black No. 1’ typeface of
William Caslon Jr (1821), whose enigmatic design for the letters E,
G, I, N, V and Y hinted at a broader ambition to modernize the
arcane shapes of the gothic alphabet’s capital letters. Parliament
completes this project for the first time by including two sets of
alphabets, one archaic and one modern, along with a third set of
‘small caps’ that restores to the blackletter the versatility of
Roman type. Parliament was first used for the 1998
ATypI Conference in Lyon, and was published by More…
“Designed by Jonathan Hoefler beginning in 1995. A burlesque typeface in the Regency Blackletter style, Parliament was inspired by the ‘Four-line Pica Black No. 1’ typeface of William Caslon Jr (1821), whose enigmatic design for the letters E, G, I, N, V and Y hinted at a broader ambition to modernize the arcane shapes of the gothic alphabet’s capital letters. Parliament completes this project for the first time by including two sets of alphabets, one archaic and one modern, along with a third set of ‘small caps’ that restores to the blackletter the versatility of Roman type. Parliament was first used for the 1998 ATypI Conference in Lyon, and was published by Hoefler&Co in 2022.” With contributions from Andy Clymer, Sara Soskolne, Troy Leinster, Colin M. Ford, Jordan Bell [Hoefler].
