Brygada 1918
Designed By
Capitalics, Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka, Ania Wieluńska, Przemysław Hoffer
8 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Brygada 1918 · Regular
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Warsaw, November 1918
A Page In Brygada 1918
Brygada 1918 · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
8 Styles,
One Family
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Regular400
Warsaw, November 1918
Italic400
Warsaw, November 1918
Medium500
Warsaw, November 1918
Medium Italic500
Warsaw, November 1918
Semi Bold600
Warsaw, November 1918
Semi Bold Italic600
Warsaw, November 1918
Bold700
Warsaw, November 1918
Bold Italic700
Warsaw, November 1918
Curly legs on the K and the R caught Janusz Tryzno’s eye. He ran the Book Art Museum of Łódź, housed in a 19th century villa, and in piles of matrices and metal plates from the Polish National Type Foundry, wrapped in brown paper, he turned up a set with those odd letters and a handwritten note that read Brygada. It was a typeface from before World War II that nobody remembered.
He asked 2 museum volunteers, Przemysław Hoffer and Borys Kosmynka, whether it could be brought back. They worked from the matrices and from the foundry’s catalog entry for the type, dated 1954, and a microscopic camera helped them read the metal.
The revival was timed for 2018 and the 100th anniversary of Polish independence, with support from the Independent program and the President of the Republic of Poland. Mateusz Machalski and Ania Wieluńska share the credit with Hoffer and Kosmynka, alongside Capitalics.
What came out is a full serif text family. 4 weights from Regular to Bold each have an italic, and there are small caps, old style and lining figures in tabular and proportional widths, and 1 stylistic set. Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese carry it well past Polish, though a history of the interwar years set in Brygada is the use we keep picturing.
Characters & Figures
1,025 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
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The Font Files
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Brygada 1918
8 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
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- 3.006
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
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<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/brygada-1918-2/brygada-1918-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Brygada 1918', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Brygada 1918 Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.