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Fairfield

Fairfield is an old-style serif typeface designed by Rudolf Ruzicka for body text use.

About Fairfield

Fairfield is an old-style serif typeface designed by Rudolf Ruzicka for body text use. Its design is rooted in the forms of Venetian Old Face types. Fairfield Medium was designed in 1940 and released in 1947. Ruzicka said of the typeface that "the limitations accepted were those tending to the greatest economy of means, rather than those supposedly inherent in the machine. For this reason ligatures (which only add to the number of characters) were confined to the f combinations required by usage. The lowercase fs, both roman and italic, fit not only all the characters, but even themselves – the twenty six leaden soldiers could fight their battles untied yet in accord".

From the Wikipedia article “Fairfield (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Fairfield in a book

Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.

Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.

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