Meatpacking District
Meatpacking is a neighborhood in New York, located on the far west side of Manhattan, right below Chelsea. It is one of the trendiest area in the city with numerous high-end retail stores, popular restaurants, chic bars, nightclubs and over-priced residences. In 1900s, the area was home to 250 slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants, giving neighborhood it’s current name. After a brief decline in the 70s, the neighborhood went through a significant transformation in the early 2000s, transitioning the area from the old, derelict manufacturing district to a modern, hip neighborhood.
Platform
Platform is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Berton Hasebe. It is distributed through Commercial Type and was first published in 2010. According to Commercial, Platform drew inspiration from a wide variety of geometric sans serifs from around the world, from the quirky Latin alphabets designed to match Japanese typefaces, which informed the large x-height, to the strangely-proportioned early Modernist German and Dutch sans serifs, which informed the interplay between wide and narrow forms in the uppercase, yielding a unique texture in lines of caps.
Romana
Romana is a serif typeface designed by Gustav F. Schroeder & Theophile Beaudoire. According to myfonts.com, In 1860, Theophile Beaudoire turned the idea of Louis Perrin’s Lyons capitals into a complete Old Style typeface, which had the same overwhelming success as its contemporary Miller & Richard Old Style in Edinburgh. It was generally known as Elzevir in France and Roemisch, Romanisch, Romaans or Romana in Germany, Holland and Switzerland. In 1892, Gustav Schroeder, at the Central Division of ATF, expanded the series, adding a boldface under the name De Vinne. It was promptly copied, initially in Europe by Ludwig & Mayer, and spread rapidly throughout the US and Europe, becoming the best known member of the series.
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