Billie is a humanist sans with a calligraphic influence designed for editorial purposes. It includes 6 weights in upright and true italics. The font family is loaded with different styles of numerals that can be activated through opentype features to enhances performance in text settings.
This type family is spirited and has a friendly appeal. The type face is also available as two variable fonts.
The original design came from Berthold Herold typeface, designed by Hermann Hoffmann during 1913 (Art Nouveau style) in Germany. This project started from flyer printed during 1947 with movable type, the specimen was scanned as a source to development some of the uppercase letterforms. However the most unusual and tricky element from this sample is the leg from the uppercase (R) which is different from the original Herold design, until now I didn’t found where this version originally came from. This expanded version only contain the bold weight, however there are also stencil (Nouveau LX Stencil) and condensed version (Nouveau LX) available.
