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Summary:

Futura (1927) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use · Identifont] is one of my favorites out of the well-established sans serifs, but one thing that annoys me about it is how C and c have vertical terminals, while G and e have angled terminals.

Besides being internally inconsistent, I find the vertical terminals ugly. (I dislike Antique Olive (1962) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use · Identifont] for the same reason, but at least it uses its vertical terminals consistently.)

I recently learned the reason for this (from the book Paul Renner: The Art of Typography): Futura was designed first and foremost for writing German. In German the letter c only occurs before h and k, and in traditional German blackletter typography, ch and ck are obligatory, inseparable ligatures.

Futura doesn't have joined ch/ck ligatures, but ch and ck were still cast on a single piece of metal, with a smaller gap between the c and h/k than between other letters. The vertical terminal on the c was necessary to allow these letters to be placed so close together.

«Evening Path Home»

Cows were the very first subject I started painting about 10 years ago.

They come from my earliest memories — from a small town in Russia where I grew up. Almost every family had one or two cows. Calves were born, everyone drank fresh milk, and life felt simple and real.

I remember how the herdsman would walk through the streets, calling them, gathering them into one big herd. The sound of hooves, the quiet movement, the rhythm of the day — all of it stayed with me.

When I moved to Belgium almost 13 years ago, cows appeared in my life again. I live in the countryside now, surrounded by fields. It’s different here — cows belong to farms, to large barns and private pastures — but they still carry that same calm presence.

For me, nothing compares to the feeling of home and the deep nostalgia they bring. #eveningpathhome #acrylicpainting #texturedart #cows #nostalgia