December’s Font of the Month: Bradley DJR Text
If you’ve sent me an email recently, you may have noticed that my response was riddled with typos. It might be because I’ve been doing a lot of multitasking this month, with visiting relatives and holiday plans. And it might be because my two-year-old twins are at an age where they are constantly hitting random keys on my keyboard.
But it is probably because I’ve been test driving this month’s font of the month Bradley DJR Text as my default font for email and web browsing. And spending that much time looking at that much blackletter definitely takes some getting used to! But, as Zuzana Licko wrote, “You read best what you read most”. So I probably just need to stick with it for a while longer.
I feel like there are two types of Font of the Month editions: one where I declare “Here’s a thing I worked on!” and another one where I ask, “Um, should I keep working on this?” Bradley DJR Text is definitely in the latter category.
I have no idea how you’ll ever use this, or if you’ll ever use this. (Maybe you are hosting a jousting tournament next weekend?) But I’ve been thinking about making a texty blackletter since I saw some exquisite specimens at the St Bride Library during my visit last year.