Willow (typeface)
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Willow is a name shared by two typefaces.
[edit] ITC Willow
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| Typeface | ITC Willow |
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| Category | Decorative |
| Designer(s) | Tony Forster |
| Foundry | ITC |
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ITC Willow was designed by Tony Forster in 1990. Although a contemporary typeface, Willow is the reminiscent of the Scottish Arts and Crafts style made popular by painter and social reformer Jessie Marion King (1875–1949), and architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) of the Glasgow School. The face is based upon a sign for the Willow Tea Room, one of three tea rooms in Glasgow designed by Mackintosh. The typeface is distinct for the double crossbars on the uppercase A, and H, and the unusual design of the uppercase O, which raised above the baseline, with two dots centered beneath the bowl.
A contemporary example of the Willow typeface being used in public can be seen the the Willo (sic) grocery on the Nortth-East corner of McDowell and 7th Avenue in Phoenix, AZ. While the relationship between the two may just be literal and not nesesarily intentional, a direct correlation can be seen between the O in Willo and the O in the ITC Willow ttypeface.
[edit] Willow Regular
| Typeface | Willow Regular |
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| Category | Display |
| Designer(s) | Joy Redick |
| Foundry | Linotype |
Willow Regular was designed by Joy Redick in 1990, and is part of the Adobe Originals Woodtype Collection.
