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Yorkshire born architect and designer was one of the preeminent

Summary: Yorkshire born architect and designer was one of the preeminent figures of the later period of the movement He was England s answer to his more famous American contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright Voysey s designs were ambitious and comprehensive and included not only basic architecture but also interior design decoration and furniture Voysey s work was reminiscent of the design work of He is particularly remembered for his unique fabric and wallpaper designs which echo the work of Walter Crane His houses featured white rough rendered walls with horizontal ribbon windows and huge pitched roofs and are recognized for their simplicity originality and total abandonment of historical tradition Voysey did detailed plans and elevations of all of his houses and labelled them in a unique hand lettered style which we have preserved and turned into a new font called Broadley The font was developed from lettering samples on several of his plans and includes features typical of arts and crafts period lettering such as nesting and joining characters It has a very special period look and will ultimately be included in our font collection You can try out the free demo version of Broadley for either or The full font of Broadley is available on our Broadley Font More New Fonts To see samples of recent font releases and older demo fonts visit our Yorkshire born architect and designer was one of the preeminent figures of the later period of the movement He was England s answer to his more famous American contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright Voysey s designs were ambitious and comprehensive and included not only basic architecture but also interior design decoration and furniture Voysey s work was reminiscent of the design work of He is particularly remembered for his unique fabric and wallpaper designs which echo the work of Walter Crane His houses featured white rough rendered walls with horizontal ribbon windows and huge pitched roofs and are recognized for their simplicity originality and total abandonment of historical tradition Voysey did detailed plans and elevations of all of his houses and labelled them in a unique hand lettered style which we have preserved and turned into a new font called Broadley The font was developed from lettering samples on several of his plans and includes features typical of arts and crafts period lettering such as nesting and joining characters It has a very special period look and will ultimately be included in our font collection You can try out the free demo version of Broadley for either or The full font of Broadley is available on our Broadley Font More New Fonts To see samples of recent font releases and older demo fonts visit our

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