Drew Ink The year

Text face

Also called Book face

A face drawn to disappear at reading size, with sturdy joints, generous spacing and enough x-height to survive being small.

Text face: a letter in the house face with the text face marked in vermilion.
Text face, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-10.
Text face: a block of Jenson's roman of 1470 set as running text, even in colour and made to be read a page at a time.
Jenson's roman as a page of text, 1470, Nicolas Jenson, printer.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Venice in 1470; Jenson died in 1480, and the book is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain page as carrying no new copyright.
Cropped to the text block. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

Near it

Display faceOptical sizex-heightMeasureCounterDutch type

Legibility and readabilityStroke contrast

What it is made of

contrastmoderatea hairline vanishes at 9pt
spacingopen
counterslarge enough not to fill