ITC Obelisk Medium
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An elegant new text family, ITC Obelisk is available in four weights: light, light italic, medium and bold. According to designer Phill Grimshaw, ITC Obelisk might be classified as “glyphic” in style, meaning that it is chiseled, rather than calligraphic in form. Grimshaw was creating a medium-to-heavy informal display face when curiosity led him to redraw some of the characters in a much lighter form. This new lighter version proved to be attractive, especially when set at small sizes, and thus became his focus. While refining the design, the medium weight was born, still retaining some of the original casual features, as seen in the lowercase h, m, n, q, and the tail of the capital Q. A set of small caps soon followed, together with a complimentary italic. The bold weight was then fashioned and used with the light in order to interpolate the medium weight.
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