Body-text fonts, pt. 40: Van Dijck
“Based on Dutch Old Style types of the 17th century” (Identifont).
(I have inverted the colors.)
Exiled from Britain, Locke took shelter in the Netherlands. Kudos to the publisher for nodding to this fact with this choice of type. This sample is from the mid-1970s; nowadays, the blandest, “safest” Adobe font would be used: scholarly Quality Control has all but banned panache. Pity, because what other thrill is to be had, reading seven hundred pages of Locke?
(I have inverted the colors.)
Exiled from Britain, Locke took shelter in the Netherlands. Kudos to the publisher for nodding to this fact with this choice of type. This sample is from the mid-1970s; nowadays, the blandest, “safest” Adobe font would be used: scholarly Quality Control has all but banned panache. Pity, because what other thrill is to be had, reading seven hundred pages of Locke?