Apostle XIII

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‘Apostle XIII’ is an ornate and decorative display typeface inspired by the angular geometrics of historical black-letters, Schwabacher and Fraktur German gothic fonts

The main composition of the glyphs take heavy inspiration from the crucifix of Christ, whilst the ornate features are reminiscent of antique Bible display type, decorative church script and gothic architecture.

The modular typeface was built using Fontshop’s online pixel based font editor Fonstruct and features both; a full ornate upper case for display and lowercase with punctuation for typesetting body copy.

The typeface was met with critical acclaim by the online community and shortly after was featured by Rob Meek, of Fontshop [the world’s largest distributor of type], as a ‘Top Pick’, a position which it has held now for two years.

‘The Unholy Bible’ a sinisterly playful one hundred page type specimen, perfect bound with gold gilding, was the produced to showcase the typeface and its capabilities, featuring chapters on; blasphemy and cursing, defamation of the Ten Commandments, an alphabet of profanity, antigrams, original sin and The Book of Revelations.

In addition to this a large wooden model alphabet was constructed to depict the origins of the typeface and the context from which the idea was conceived.