The intention was to design this typeface in a way that works equally well for a variety of projects from music and fashion to business, entertainment and luxury products. The new typeface would have to loose its deep classic calligraphy roots and instead acquire a clean contemporary identity retain the handwriting elements without the mechanical repetition of identical glyphs for the same character and finally, apply similar design aesthetics to Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, without compromising the traditional roots of each script. Three basic requirements became clear right from start.
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The development of Champion Script Pro started in 2004 with the intention to design a contemporary typeface with classic roots which, for the first time, would be able to fully support three major scripts such as Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, as well as document at the same time alternate glyphs and ligatures (for all three scripts) never before released.Įventually each one of the font's two weights is loaded with 4300 glyphs, which offer simultaneous support for all European languages based on the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts.Ĭhampion Script was officially presented in June 2007 at the 3rd International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication ICTVC. Later, in his published paper "Ligatures & calligraphie assistée par ordinateur" (1995), he proposed a couple of alphabets, based on Champion, with a minimal set of alternate glyphs but it did not really make it into a commercial font as he passed away in 1999. Something that strangely enough is not mentioned often in typography circles, is that the first known attempt to decode Champion's writing, was done in 1989 by the French typographic designer François Boltana mostly known for his typeface Stilla. Following these plates come some alphabets by Champion whose last published work was "The Penman’s Employment," 1762.Ĭhampion's manuscripts were embellished with several beautiful swashes, frames, ornaments, endings and beginnings, all written with such a precision that seems very difficult to achieve in our days. The Parallel consists of reproductions of the work of foreign masters like Materot, Barbedor, Van den Velde, Perlingh and Maria Strick, with corresponding plates by Champion. His most important work, "The Parallel or Comparative Penmanship Exemplified," was published in 1750.
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Joseph Champion was born at Chatham in 1709 and was educated partly at St Paul’s School and partly at Sir John Johnson’s Free Writing School in Foster Lane under Charles Snell to whom he was afterwards apprenticed.Ĭhampion contributed no fewer than 47 plates to Bickham’s Universal Penman. Nevertheless, it haunted me for at least three years before the project got started and after I learned a thing or two about calligraphy. "It was then when I came across a number of beautiful 18th century manuscripts written by English calligraphers. I was particularly impressed by the writing of Joseph Champion, somebody whom I had never heard before.īeing myself a self-taught type designer and not a calligrapher, the idea of pursuing such a task seemed at the moment unattainable. įollowing is a deep dive into the font's origins and development, contributed by the typographer himself for a stunning typographic adventure -from past to present.
"The decision to develop such a typeface was taken during my trip to London back in 2001, while I was doing a research at the St Bride Library" writes the creator of PFChampionScriptPro, type designer Panos Vassiliou. Probably one of the most advanced and powerful formal script typefaces ever made, Parachute's Champion Script Pro was developed over a period of two and a half years before its release in 2007.
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