Mr Eaves Font
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Emigre Fonts is a digital type foundry and publisher of type specimens and artist books based in Berkeley, California. From 1984 until 2005 Emigre published the legendary Emigre magazine, a quarterly publication devoted to visual communication. The Emigre font library features more than 600 original typefaces, including Mrs Eaves, Brothers, Matrix and Filosofia.
Mrs Eaves is a transitional serif typeface designed by Zuzana Licko in 1996. It is a variant of Baskerville, which was designed in Birmingham, England, in the 1750s. Mrs Eaves adapts Baskerville for use in display contexts, such as headings and book blurbs, through the use of a low x-height and a range of unusual combined characters or ligatures.
Mrs Eaves is named after Sarah Eaves, the woman who became John Baskerville's wife. Like his typefaces, John Baskerville was, himself, a controversial character. As Baskerville was setting up his printing and type business, he hired Sarah Eaves as his live-in housekeeper; eventually, her husband Richard abandoned her and their five children, and Mrs Eaves became Baskerville's mistress and eventual helpmate with typesetting and printing. She married Baskerville within a month of her estranged husband's death. Selection of the name Mrs Eaves honors one of the forgotten women in the history of typography.[2]
Stylistically, Mrs Eaves is a revival of the Baskerville typefaces cut for Baskerville by John Handy. Like Baskerville, Mrs Eaves has a near vertical stress, departing from the old-style model. Identifying characters, similar to Baskerville's types, are the lowercase g with its open lower counter and swashlike ear. Both the roman and italic uppercase Q have a flowing swashlike tail. The uppercase C has serifs at top and bottom; there is no serif at the apex of the central junction in uppercase W; and the uppercase G has a sharp spur suggesting a vestigial serif.
Licko's design is unorthodox and not a pure revival. In creating it, she was influenced by how it would be printed by contrast to printing in Baskerville's time: considering the flatness of offset lithography in comparison to letterpress printing, and the resolution of set devices and on-screen display. The overall stroke weight of Mrs Eaves is considerably heavier than most other revivals, countering the often anemic reproduction of smaller point sizes in other digital revivals of Baskerville, and restoring some of the feeling of letterpress printing's unpredictability. To compensate for this and create a brighter-looking page, Licko lowered the x-height, reducing the amount of space taken up by ink on the page.
Licko also designed a set of Petite Caps for Mrs Eaves, which were lower in height than regular Small Caps to accommodate the small x-height. This was the first typeface family to have a Petite Caps font and it became a feature in the OpenType specifications.[4]
Several derivatives of Mrs Eaves have been released. These include Mrs Eaves XL (2009), a tighter derivative with a higher x-height intended for body text, and Mr Eaves and Mr Eaves XL, a sans-serif design similar to Johnston and Gill Sans.
Mrs Eaves XL was intended to provide a solution to a common criticism of Mrs Eaves' original release: its very loose and uneven spacing, which makes Mrs Eaves unsuitable for body text. Emigre noted themselves that "The spacing is generally too loose for large bodies of text, it sort of rambles along ... Economy of space was not one of the goals behind the original Mrs Eaves design."[5]
Mr Eaves was released in both regular and XL designs, matching the original Mrs Eaves and Mrs Eaves XL. Both heights were released in two widths: regular and narrow, and in two styles: Sans, a humanist design closest to the original serif model, and a more simplified Modern design resembling geometric sans-serif fonts like Futura.[6][7]
Mrs Eaves is particularly well known for its range of ligatures, ranging from the common to the fanciful and including intertwined and swash designs. Ligatures in all variants of Mrs Eaves include the standard fi, ffi, and fl ligatures, as well as the classic eighteenth-century ct and st ligatures and others with no historical precedent. These have been released in a variety of formats: originally ligatures were released in separate expert set fonts; more recently they are issued as stylistic alternates using the OpenType format. A Just Ligatures variant is available in roman and italic. The OpenType format fonts also contain all 213 ligatures.[8]
I tired using the Mrs Eaves font in Affinity Designer and Publisher and whenever I use it, it doesn't show any spaces in-between the words. The spaces are there because if I use another font the spaces appear. I've never had this issue in any other program or software with this font. Has anyone else had this problem, is there a workaround?
Really old fonts are, from what I've read, not supported by the Affinity applications. If you're using a copy that is that old, my guess is you'll need to replace it with something newer (new implementation of Mrs Eaves, or something similar) to use it with the Affinity fonts.
I'm not sure if this topic has to do with it, but since last year Type-1 fonts are no longer supported - even by Adobe. It's outdated. I don't know if Affinity still supports Type 1. But I don't think so. What font format is your Mrs Eaves font?
If you're seeking accents or callouts for your own work, the color swatches below are meant to get you started. They are darker tones, which means there's enough contrast that you can use them for text. If they're used as a background, text on top should be white and sized above 16px.
The Mrs Eaves, Mrs Eaves XL, Mr Eaves XL Sans, and Mr Eaves XL Sans Narrow font families are the primary typefaces for Bowdoin College communications. Mrs Eaves was chosen for its relationship to the wordmark, and Mr Eaves XL Sans was chosen as a sans-serif companion.
Within each of these families, a wide range of styles and weights are available for use. The combination of these complementary families allows for flexibility and creative expression in text and display.
Times New Roman and Arial are widely available and commonly installed on most computers. They are the only two substitute typefaces that are approved for use in PowerPoint templates, websites, email templates, informal internal communications, written letters, and others instances when the primary typefaces are not available.
Mrs Eaves is a great font, but two essential glyphs are not available in the Latin version. Because of only these two missing glyphs, we cannot use Mrs Eaves. There is a Central European version, but it is not included in Adobe Fonts. The CE font on Emigre's website: -Eaves-CE
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We know that it is possible to use our own fonts as well, however we would like to be able to access the 2 glyphs (ő ű) that is essential in Hungarian, without purchasing the CE version separately. Mrs Eaves Latin, which is included in our Creative Cloud subscription has every other glyph, and it would be wonderful if we could access the Central European version from Creative Cloud.
You may notice the selection of typefaces that appear on Adobe Fonts is constantly changing. The reason: independent typefoundries choose which of their typefaces will be available on the system, and which typefaces that you need to license directly. For every typefoundry, this is a very specific and individual choice. Some foundries make everything available on Adobe Fonts; others a selection; some foundries prefer that you only deal with them directly.
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Mrs. Eaves is a very versatile, free flowing, elegant typeface. To understand the unique style of Mrs. Eaves, it is first important to know the history of how it was developed. Designed by Zuzana Licko in 1996 the type was inspired by the typeface, Baskerville (Heller, 68).
With everyone buying this beautiful typeface, there are actually only a few ways it is suggested to be used. It is recommended to use Mrs. Eaves at 11.5pt font size, with a 12.5 leading (Rivard). It is also suggested to only use the font for short texts. Most often it is used in book covers, CD covers, restaurant menus, logos, and poetry books (migr, 68). This allows the elegance of the type to come through, compared to a long text, which looks less appropriate.
Mrs. Eaves Font is a sans-serif typeface family that was originally designed by a prominent designer John Baskerville. He produced the font in 1957 England, Birmingham and the font name is after his wife name Sarah Eaves. This typeface was recreated in the original face by Zuzana Licko in 1996. This is an amazing typeface with the contrast between both Thin and Thick strokes. This font is available in various programs such as Mircosoft Word and this font is also included in the Adobe Fonts.
The styles and characters of this typeface are quite perfect for text designs. Zuzana Licko gives a unique look to the typeface and made it suitable for any type of text design and also perfect for printing projects such as t-shirt designs, mug designs, business and invitation cards, and many others.
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