Reckonly
Reckonly is a revival of Kennerley Old Style, a serif typeface designed by Frederic Goudy in 1911. The tilted ‘e’, unconventional stress and serifs on ‘z’, and tapered ascenders lend the typeface an unusual and organic character. I based my revival on scans from the book Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts by Juliet James, published in 1915. I extended the font by giving it a weight axis, with high-contrast and low-contrast variants of the black weight for display vs. text use, respectively.
Reckonly was my project for Term 1 of Type West 2024. You can read the process book and specimen here, or test the font out below.