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Boston & Philadelphia Line

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BOSTON LINE and PHILADELPHIA LINE fonts each have an unusual sanserif design, quirky letterforms, and rounded mechanical strokes that suggest template lettering or machine-readable fonts. Boston is lowercase only, Philadelphia is a bit more conventional including upper and lowercase, Regular and Bold for each.

These were inspired by 2 different 19th-century educators’ attempts to make a raised-letter alphabet for the blind. Eventually, the dot grid of Braille would prove easier to use, but Samuel Gridley Howe’s legacy lives on at Boston’s Perkins School, as does Julius Friedlander’s at Philadelphia’s Overbrook School.

In the original designs, all the letters were aligned on the baseline, including letters with descenders. I have lowered them to their conventional positions, retaining the original raised ones as alternates to be used for the greatest historical accuracy.

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Boston Line Regular

Boston Line Regular

Boston Line Bold Regular

Boston Line Bold Regular

Philadelphia Line Regular

Philadelphia Line Regular

Philadelphia Line Bold Regular

Philadelphia Line Bold Regular

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