As a modulated serif, its letter shapes live between serif and sans serif, lending the design a sense of pleasing irregularity – something that's really highlighted at larger sizes. However this is also a typeface that works for text, injecting rhythm and texture into reading.
"It's distinctive, idiosyncratic, and weird," says its designer, Ben Jones. He started designing Amrys while studying an MA at Reading University, creating it in response to a brief for a magazine typeface.
Amrys features an extensive and impressive character set. In addition to Latin, Amrys covers several scripts including Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Armenian. The family consists of 8 weights, from Light to Black, with matching italics.
Font Family:
· Amrys Light
· Amrys Light Italic
· Amrys Regular
· Amrys Italic
· Amrys Book
· Amrys Book Italic
· Amrys Medium
· Amrys Medium Italic
· Amrys Semibold
· Amrys Semibold Italic
· Amrys Bold
· Amrys Bold Italic
· Amrys Extrabold
· Amrys Extrabold Italic
· Amrys Black
· Amrys Black Italic
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