Nordvest emphasises the horizontal direction of the line, reversing the traditional order of thick and thins. A versatile type family in four weights and eight styles, it takes on a friendly, approachable appearance in the heavier weights, while the lighter text styles embody all the marks of a workhorse text face.
Designer
Sandavagur
I took the ferry to Nólsoy to meet with Emil Thomsen, an old publisher. I had arranged a visit, and I had been warned: he was less of a brainworker than a businessman; previously the Electrolux sales representative for these islands, he eventually acquired a printing press and started publishing literature both old and new. A sly fox with the memory of an aging elephant. Meanwhile, though, he was said to have gone deaf. So, after knocking on his front door a number of times, I decided just to enter the house.
A few words about colours: Here in the islands, they break in a wonderful way in the moist air, often spreading the light.
VESTMANNA
Tórshavn
Mykines
V. U. Hammershaimb
Inseln [The Islands]. In K. Kienholz (Ed), Nordlandliebe. Verlag Martin Wallimann.
Sámal Joensen-Mikines
William Heinesen
“Switzerland,” he repeated as though he were chewing the word. And asked if I knew Oskar Bandle? Who was also from Switzerland; he knew him and had met him once, and I said: “Of course I know him, he was my professor at university.”
… glimmering like the shell of a red whelk, or in waterfalls of light which are suddenly cast down between dark, dark bulky clouds in a dramatic, imposing weather system shimmering on the sea, the rocks, the green grass and the black houses.
A Visit to Nólsoy
