README.txt

Girassol
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Designer: Liam Spradlin
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see OFL.txt)
Styles: 1
Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Girassol

Girassol is a display typeface inspired by the hand-painted street signs in
and around Carcavelos, Portugal. It attempts to collect, synthesize, and
lovingly evoke the identity and spirit of the region in which the original
forms were encountered, while acknowledging my own relationship to and
presence in the place and the design.

The primary characteristics that define Girassol include its condensed
proportions, moderate contrast following the expansion model, a thorny,
decorative serif construction that pierces the baseline and cap height, and
playful flourishes that mimic the decoration possible in hand-painted signage.

Numerous discretionary ligatures play on the typeface's angular and thorny
construction to evoke a sense of improvisation in the signs on which the forms
are based.

The smallcaps are the result of my effort to capture the secondary style found
in the Carcavelos signs. My approach to the smallcaps lead to a set of letters
that perfectly complements the main caps but which simultaneously becomes
softer and more gentle because of its more square proportion.

Girassol feels at home set in large, striking titles and smaller graphical
vignettes.

To contribute, see github.com/liamspradlin/Girassol-Display.

This font is free to use, share and modify under its license.
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