Rilke

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Rilke is an original design by Jerry Kelly in the transitional style of Baskerville and Bell. Though transitional alphabets are among the most widely used today, appearing in everything from advertising to fine book work, original designs in the style are surprisingly scarce. By contrast, renaissance roman styles have attracted numerous modern interpretations, alongside the perennially popular redrawings of Garamond, Caslon, and others. Rilke fills that gap with a complete family: Book with quiet authority, a graceful Book Italic, useful small caps, and a refined Display version of both.

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And what are you reading, Miss — ? “Oh! It is only a novel!” replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda”; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances to the number of which they are themselves adding — joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body.

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