Radley Font

Radley is based on lettering initially drawn and designed for woodcarved titling function. It was later digitized and extended to be utilized on the web. Radley is actually a sensible face, determined by letterforms used by hand carvers who cut letters speedily, effectively, and with style. It may be used for each titling and text typography.

The basic letterforms in Radley grew out of sketching and designing straight into wood with standard carving chisels. These had been scanned and traced into FontForge and cleaned up digitally, then the character set was expanded. There is something distinctive about carving letters into wood with conventional hand tools, and hopefully Radley carries some of the original spirit of these hand carved letterforms.

Because the initial launch in 2012, Radley was updated by Vernon Adams adding an Italic and assistance for much more Latin languages. He produced quite a few glyph refinements all through the loved ones based on user feedback. In 2017 the family was updated by Marc Foley to complete the perform started by Vernon.