Parix Font

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Parix 111R, Hybrid cut in Toulouse by Johann Parix for Rodericus Zamorensis’ Speculum vitae humanae, around 1475 (exact date unknown) and used until 1481. Type design workshop at ISDAT Toulouse and Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, February 2018.

Parix font is a part of Gothico Antiqua project. Based on a series of workshop sessions conducted between 2015 and 2018 in art & design schools across France and Germany, with over 150 students, the digital typefaces are the result of a thorough analysis and redesign of the originals.