The Enschedé Font Foundry (TEFF) | Trinité Collection 81×OTF € 3368,00

Request: Collis, Lexicon, Trinite by TEFF




In 1982 Bram de Does was commissioned by the [Royal] Joh. Enschedé en Zonen to digitise and redesign an updated Trinité based on the original typeface for its 275th anniversary. Initially the typeface was only made available for photocomposition on the (now obsolete) Autologic (analogue) phototypesetting system.

The Trinité family is remarkably extensive and complete. The main groups are differentiated by stem (ascender and descender) length. Versions 1 to 3 have different stem lengths (1 is short and 3 is long). The stems of Version 4 are the same length as version 3, but have swash stroke endings.

All characters without ascenders or descenders are identical across all 4 versions. This makes it possible to switch effortlessly from Roman Wide 1 to Roman Wide 2 or Roman Wide 3 without reflowing the text. Also, the 'regular' fonts (Roman Wide, Roman Condensed and Italic) have the same width as the corresponding medium variants (Medium Wide, Medium Condensed and Medium Italic) thus making it possible to switch from regular to medium weight without the problem of reflow.

Trinité on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinit%C3%A9_(typeface)



Trinité at TEFF
http://www.teff.nl/fonts/trinite/