Portrait is Berton Hasebe’s sharply minimalist depiction of French Renaissance types. The marriage of classical proportions with triangular Latin serifs is an inspired combination, and a fresh way to see these nearly 500-year-old forms.
Portrait draws its primary inspiration from the Two-line Double Pica Roman, equivalent to 32pt in contemporary sizes, attributed to the French punchcutter Maître Constantin (known as the Estienne Master).
The italic is a departure from the historical models, touching on hallmarks of the style, like the slightly ascending p and looped k, while remaining minimalist in nature, turning hooks into triangles and regularizing the slope angle.
Inline is a beautiful, decorative addition to Portrait, building on the inscriptional quality of the capital proportions.
Portrait Inline Regular takes the minimalism present in the rest of the collection to its logical extreme: sharply tapering outer strokes play against monoline inner strokes, with all extraneous detailing stripped away. The Inline Sans takes the structure of the Inline Serif, exposing the geometric underpinnings of the proportions, while adding a dimensional element through its overlapping strokes.
Small capitals, all small caps, case sensitive forms, standard ligatures, proportional lining figures, proportional oldstyle figures, tabular lining figures, tabular oldstyle figures, ordinals, fractions, denominator, numerator, subscript / inferiors, superscript / superiors, six stylistic sets
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