![]() ![]() The ‘Rough’ soon became ‘Refined’ – a smooth cut, all-caps font – which was followed by lowercase roman and italic versions completing the Carrig Compleat family that has been around since mid-2015. Having purchased the wonderful Glyphs app, I rolled my sleeves up and set about creating what would become Carrig Rough. Until 2014, when I suddenly found the inspiration to resurrect the project and breathe new life into it. But since then Carrig was pretty much forgotten. I managed to get a basic character set together and the identity was created and very well received by the client. I attempted to copy the found typeface by hand and then began the process of interpreting my drawings in Macromedia Fontographer to create a working font. Also, as “Carrig” is the Irish word for “rock”, it made sense to emulate the look of weathered stone engravings for the logo. I had been leaning towards using Baskerville, Garamond or even Trajan for the logotype, but there was something about the hand-drawn look that made it more personal and authentic. I had been researching old typography for an identity I was designing for Carrig House – a picturesque and tranquil lakeside hotel in Co. ![]() ![]() Carrig came to life in 1998 when I discovered an example of a beautiful Roman typeface in an old calligraphy workbook. ![]()
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