Via Appia

by Yves Michel

Character Set

396 characters

Uppercase Letters

Lowercase Letters

Numbers

Punctuation

Size Waterfall

72px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

48px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

36px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

24px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

16px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Text Samples

Pangrams

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

How vexingly quick daft zebras jump

Paragraph

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing, and letter-spacing, and adjusting the space between pairs of letters.

Numbers

0123456789

2.718281828459045

9,876,543.21

Designer's Notes

Via Appia's first use is as a title font. The basis is my Pompei font without the flourishes. It's in fact a Roman embossed alphabet.
Remarks or suggestions will be welcome by private message.
Version 2:
Added: Stylistic sets 1 and 2 to convert arabic numerals from 1 to 9999 to roman numerals, some glyphs.
Corrected: mostly lower cases, kerning.
Version 2.004:
Corrected some "optical illusions": A a M m N n 4 8 $ etc.
Version 3:
corrected M,m,N,n,Q,q
Version 3.200:
Corrected kerning VA, WA, va, wa
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Via Appia Twin:

This "shadow" font consists of the originally empty contours in the "Via Appia" font.
In a graphic program, when the same text is typeset in two text frames at the same size, one in the normal font, one in the shadow font, and the frames are exactly overlaid, you get the combined result of letters and shadows. Fill the two frames with different colours or gradients

Cette fonte "d'ombrage" reprend les contours originellement vides de la police "Via Appia".
Dans un programme graphique, si le même texte est inclus dans deux zones de texte de mêmes dimensions et exactement superposées, l'un dans la police normale, l'autre dans la police Twin, le résultat est une combinaison des deux. Remplissez les deux cadres de couleurs ou de dégradés différents.

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