Lorimer

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Credits

Designer(s)
James Walker Puckett
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Release Year
2011
Country of Origin
United States
Classification
Sans Serif, Gothic
Original Format
Digital
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FontSpring
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Lorimer was inspired by nineteenth-century inscriptions in the yard of New York’s historic St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. Touches of decoration enliven the letterforms, including high and sometimes slanted crossbars, a curious K, and alternate versions of R, K, and k with small serifs. F

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Last edited by Simon Robertson on January 30, 2011, 08:24am EST

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