Mr. Palker

An extra narrow slab serif, 2013

Mr. Palkerson

An extra narrow sans, 2013

A slab serif Mr Palker and grotesque Mr Palkerson build one superfamily together. 
These are blank types. In a way even the display ones. Typefaces for newspapers, announcements, cheap advertising and police posters.

 

Mr Palker and Mr Palkerson will turn every language into a fence. And due to six types of faces one can choose what material should the fence be made from — from Thin steel rods to the Black stone blocks. In their simplest appearance Mrs P&P are  intended for the solid blank composition in victorian or industrial style. They are quite decent, a bit old-fashioned slab serif and grotesque with closed aperture.

All Yuri Gordon's types have layers.
Walker and Palkerson also do. Besides the standard set of symbols, they have 4 add-ons.

1. Alternate glyphs, including unicase ones.
2. Ligatures with A letter.
3. Extra tall small caps.
4. Two-storey ligatures.

 

All this options are intended for the complex composition. The additional letters are rather eccentric as their main function here is to imitate the victorian oddities. Imitate, parody, just not repeat. 

Finally — the trademark of Palkers family, two-storey ligatures.

They are made in the height of uppercases and turn every writing into an ornament or a puzzle of a kind, while at the same time making them much shorter. Each face has 90 of them. Mainly those are twins: CC, BB, DD and so on. And also prepositions and conjunctions: IS, IN, ON, НА, По and so on. There are as well some characteristic pairs of English/Russian: TH, АЯ, etc. Of course, one cannot think in advance for all the possible combinations, but that wasn’t planned. All this things are for the unhasty compositing, even for lettering. Which means that for the things which are not there you always should have Command+Option+O and some patience. Also — among the two storey ligatures one also can find some belvedere villas.

 

Please, check it on Yuri Gordon's site >> Mr Palker and Mr Palkerson.

Also available on MyFonts Mr Palker and Mr Palkerson.