README.txt

Dorsa
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Designer: Santiago Orozco
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see OFL.txt)
Styles: 1
Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Dorsa

I always been attracted to condensed typefaces, and one of the first I came
across was Empire, designed by Morris Benton Fuller for ATF in 1937. I first
spotted it in an architecture book at my college's library while doing
homework.

 Dorsa is a modern interpretation of Empire with some personal details. When I
start sketching I knew it would be a little less condensed than the original
Empire because I wanted it to be used for use in titles, and combined with
positive letter spacing it gives an elegant look to text. Although the
original hasn't got a lowercase, I studied a lot of skyline typefaces and drew
a fully original lowercase.

 I started with lowercase “o”, which isn't completely geometric, it is
expanded to the outside, keeping the same whitespace through all weights. And
this repeats all over the typeface, because the construction of all the
characters was modular, based on that “o”; the “f” is designed to not
meet any of the diacritics; and uppercase “A” has a traditional form,
because I think this is more legible.

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