Villiers - Water

This is a combination I really enjoyed from the typeface I built this summer.

Villiers was created almost serendipitously. My wife came home one day with what seemed like 20 pounds of books from goodwill, and showed me she found this beautiful hardback book titled “Men, Ships, and the Sea” by author Alan Villiers and thought I’d be interested.

It sat on the shelf for a long time. I knew I wanted to try to recreate it from the moment I saw it, but the task just seemed so daunting. I’ve created a typeface from scratch before, and I figured I could do it again, so while I found myself with more time at home during a world-wide epidemic, I began my journey.

Here, I scanned the spine, and tried to get the DNA as close as I could of the lower-case letters, and create as best as I could the remaining 17 characters. This is a work-in-progress and will continue to develop as I continue to obsessed over getting things right.