Catalogue
Corundum Text includes alternate forms of C, G, and S.
Corundum Text includes the archaic “long s”. Corundum Text Italic includes three forms of lowercase z: standard, short, and long.
Corundum Text contains lowercase figures.
Alternate forms of figure one and figure seven are provided in Corundum Text Italic for parity with Corundum Text Roman.
Corundum Text Roman includes an alternate flat-seriffed ampersand. Corundum Text Italic includes two alternate ampersands.
The small capitals fonts include special versions of the ampersand.
Corundum Text includes 32 ligatures for each Roman and Italic, comprising t, f, ff, long s, and double long s pairings.
Corundum Text’s small capitals fonts include special versions of the parentheses, brackets and braces.
Corundum Text Pi includes more than 100 marks, arrows, and symbols, as follows. For a full character map of Corundum Text Pi, please see the Corundum Text PDF specimen.
Algebraic Marks
Geometric Marks
Phases of the Moon
Planets (including those discovered after the 18th century)
Aspects
Almanac Signs
Signs of the Zodiac
Indicators
Arrows
In the late 18th century, baroque flourishes gradually gave way to stark rationalism. This period saw some of the greatest practitioners of the balance of beauty and function, among them Pierre-Simon Fournier.
Based on the middle sizes of Fournier’s body of work, Corundum Text’s generous capitals and strong color on the page mark it unequivocally as a text face in the Neoclassic style: when stripped of its letterpress veneer, a quiet, crisp brilliance emerges. The italics demand special attention in this regard: hailed by historian Harry Carter as ‘the most legible … of all’, they were among the first to merge the undulous line of handwritten Italics with the broken strokes of the roman, an innovation which is now a standard practice in the design of typefaces for legibility.
Expanding upon the utility of Fournier’s designs for prose and poetry, Corundum Text includes two heavier weights, each with a fully-equipped arsenal of italics and small capitals, suitable for subtle, immersive text settings or robust display with a literary touch.
Corundum Text’s twelve alphabetic styles are complemented by 50 pictographic symbols from Fournier’s Manuel Typographique, including lunar, planetary, zodiac, and indication symbols (fists, arrows, &c.)