Character Set


BearButteT (Plain, Bold, Italic, BoldItalic, Special)

(available at myfonts.com)

Every so often I try my hand at a text face. Some of the very good text faces are done by long-time professionals or by teams and take thousands of hours to complete. I have not done anything that challenges the quality of some of those faces, but it is still an interesting personal challenge to produce something that will work well as a text face.

BearButteT is a square-serifed typeface derived from Medieval Gunslinger. The bold version was developed first as a display typeface, and the rest of the family was developed later. Nonetheless the plain version is readable at small point sizes and can be used as a text face.

In addition to the normal family of plain, bold, italic, and bolditalic styles, a fifth member of the family includes swash caps on the upper-case keys and small caps on the lower case keys.

About the name: Square serifs were popular in the nineteenth century and are often associated with an Old-West look. Therefore a Western name seemed appropriate. Bear Butte is a strange little mountain, sacred to some of the Plains Indians, just north of the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is one of my favorite places in the West. I could not resist adding the T.

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altered but not revised Jan 2008