“I’ve always been fond of Ludlow’s Record
Gothic. … Wanting to remove my innate sense of
letter proportion from the development I decided early on to
slavishly follow the proportions of the Regular and Bold weights of
the original Ludlow design. Many of the drawing decisions this led
me to were at first shocking to my sensibilities. Rather than
‘correct’ what I saw as errors I kept to it and developed these two
weights as a beginning reference. I used these to then create very
thin and heavy extremes and developed a carefully calibrated series
of weights. Something the original never had. Unlike the oblique
styles of News, Trade, and the original Record
Gothic, the More…
“I’ve always been fond of Ludlow’s Record Gothic. … Wanting to remove my innate sense of letter proportion from the development I decided early on to slavishly follow the proportions of the Regular and Bold weights of the original Ludlow design. Many of the drawing decisions this led me to were at first shocking to my sensibilities. Rather than ‘correct’ what I saw as errors I kept to it and developed these two weights as a beginning reference. I used these to then create very thin and heavy extremes and developed a carefully calibrated series of weights. Something the original never had. Unlike the oblique styles of News, Trade, and the original Record Gothic, the oblique styles in this family have all been drawn to correct any optical anomalies caused by digital slanting.” — James Montalbano