A couple years ago, I came across the Doves font. I fell in love with it for two reasons. Firstly, it is the most beautiful serif font I’ve ever seen. Secondly, the Doves font has a wonderful story of loss and recovery. The original steel typeset blocks (sorts) were hurled into the Thames river, lost for generations. In 2014 a subset of the sorts were recovered, allowing the re-creation of the font.

Fonts sit at the intersection of design, communication, and technology. I have a rather embarrassing collection of custom fonts that I’ve created, or edited. For this project, however, I immediately knew the font I wanted to use.