Inspired by the Japanese music collective known as Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Nightingale is a unique serif font suitable for both body text and display. This font draws its inspiration from the rich cultural heritage of Japanese music and art, and it is designed to capture the essence of the collective’s innovative and experimental approach to music. With its elegant curves, harmonious proportions, and distinctive serifs, Nightingale offers a fresh and dynamic alternative to more traditional serif fonts. Whether you are looking to enhance the visual appeal of your website, create eye-catching marketing materials, or design stunning print publications, Nightingale is a versatile and engaging font that is sure to impress.
This typeface expresses the quirky, expressive and celebratory yet light and angelic sounds of the collective. It is a time-honoured presentation of human sophistication, grace and mystery. It is inspired by Geinoh Yamashirogumi’s Ecophony Rinne and Gaia albums.
Geinoh Yamashirogumi are known for both their faithful re-creations of folk music from around the world, as well as their fusion of various traditional musical styles with modern instrumentation and synthesizers. In the 1980s, MIDI digital synthesizers could not handle the tuning systems of traditional gamelan music, so the group had to teach themselves how to program in order to modify their equipment. Their music is a mix of Indonesian chromatic percussion, traditional Japanese theatrical and spiritual music, choir sounding vocal work, European classical, and progressive rock.
Nightingale is a typeface for all serif lovers who enjoy sophisticated, delicate and elevating type designs. Nightingale works greatly with prints, editorials, fashion, advertising and packaging. Though it is designed as a body text, Nightingale has plenty of special features that make it unique as a display type as well.
# Death of Typography
Death of Typography is a young type collective that practices, researches and explores type through creative inquiry and collaboration. The Death of Typography Foundry hosts open source fonts under the SIL Open Font License (see LICENSE OFL.txt).
# Project Author
Death of Typography
https://deathoftypography.com
Celia Yew
https://www.behance.net/celiayewgraphics
# License
You are free to use, modify and distribute this font for commercial and non-commercial works but please credit Death of Typography and the Original Designer stated below. Please refer to (LICENSE OFL.txt) for more details.
Copyright © 2021, Death of Typography (DOT) and Original Designer
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
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SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2021
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