Chaparral Revision
Chaparral Revision
Chaparral Revision
designer
CAROL TWOMBLY
belongs to Adobe
1997
Chaparral was originally created in a digital format by Carol Twombly and was meant to combine the 19th century slab serif designs with the 16th century old style typefaces making a versatile, hybrid slab-serif design. Chaparral was designed to put a modern, timeless twist to two very popular ideas. Twombly graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. She also received a Master of Science degree in digital typography from Stanford university She was one of five students to earn this degree. Twombly converted Caslon from the 1700s to a digital format , as well as designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Nueva STD. Type truly does have personality and that is definatley present in Chaparral. Chaparral is full of little nuances that make it unique The chaparral y is full of personality because of terminal on the descender is slanted and rounded off at the edges rather than having a curve. The serifs in the typeface are unlike others in its classification, such as Clarendon and Serifa, and is great to use for body copy and has recently been used for body copy in Stories & Novels which is a is a remarkable and modestly designed online collection of short stories by Franz Neumann Twomblys design is definatley an affective way to merge the two styles of type and making it feel completely new.
Timeless lettering
The tail is curved down and and then curved up at a slanted slight angle.
The bowl is interesting because it has very strong thicks and thins.