There seems to be a re-emergence of interest in the arts & crafts movement presently. We decided to release Paul & Pat Hickson’s beautiful typeface as LDN Bloomsbury Old Style, to meet this need for a new sensitivity in design.

The Bloomsbury Group — Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey et al — realised the importance of the arts and their works influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as introducing new ideas about feminism, pacifism, and sexuality that are relevant so much to the time we live in now.

Visit Bloomsbury, due south of the British Museum, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s home in Charleston, near Lewes, and Monk’s House near Rodmell, the home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf. 

Enjoy Paul and Pat’s sensitively splayed lower case letters u, n, m, the lovely ampersand and their beautifully crafted capital letters, P, R, B, N, Q, U and S. These fine humanist serif fonts also contain several discretionary lower case ligatures to embellish your work with. 

Virginia Woolf poster images & House of Wisdom exhibition photo courtesy of Modern Activity.