“The steel engraving process used for currency and old fashioned
stocks, siderography, renders type with high precision shading and
high contrast. LTR Federal recreates this technique
for digital design and publishing, capturing the typographic voice
of nation states and old fashioned banks and delivering it to your
desktop. Is it bold enough for you? In use by the actual Federal
Reserve (I’ve been told).” [LettError]
In additon to a plain Regular style, there is a set of Shade
fonts named LTR Federal Optical Layers. These can be
combined in layers (Bevel, Fill, and Shadow; the latter two in
horizontal and diagonal variants) and come in four optical sizes
(6, 9, 12, 18 Line). For those who don’t need different colors for
the layers, there is the precombined LTR Federal Bureau
(12). Added in 2023, it More…
“The steel engraving process used for currency and old fashioned stocks, siderography, renders type with high precision shading and high contrast. LTR Federal recreates this technique for digital design and publishing, capturing the typographic voice of nation states and old fashioned banks and delivering it to your desktop. Is it bold enough for you? In use by the actual Federal Reserve (I’ve been told).” [LettError]
In additon to a plain Regular style, there is a set of Shade fonts named LTR Federal Optical Layers. These can be combined in layers (Bevel, Fill, and Shadow; the latter two in horizontal and diagonal variants) and come in four optical sizes (6, 9, 12, 18 Line). For those who don’t need different colors for the layers, there is the precombined LTR Federal Bureau (12). Added in 2023, it comes in three versions: horizontal shading, diagonal shading, and no fill. LTR Federal Reserve Note is a so-called cameo or streamer version of the Regular, with boxed-in letterforms. Comes with ten different end pieces: Crown, Toffee, Scroll, Oval, Engraved, Lunate, Crescent, Candy, Fish, and Hotdog.
See Ornamented No. 1049 for a historical precursor.
