Malabar
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A new type family for extensive text, Malabar™ likely is the first typeface in the Linotype library named after a brew of coffee. Originally, the typeface had a different name. While Dan Reynolds was designing the first weights of the typeface on the MA Typeface Design course at the University of Reading in the UK, it was known as Martel, after the eighth-century Frankish hero Charles Martel. After returning to Berlin, he spent a few additional months finishing up the typeface for release. The nearest coffee shop to his apartment was Barcomi’s, in Kreuzberg’s Bergmann Straße. Quaffing copious amounts of India Monsooned Malabar was exactly what he needed to complete this study oldstyle serif family.
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- http://www.linotype.com/5831/malabar.html
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