Willow (typeface)

Willow is a name shared by two typefaces.

ITC Willow

ITC Willow
Category Decorative
Designer(s) Tony Forster
Foundry ITC
Sample

ITC Willow was designed by Tony Forster in 1990. Although a contemporary typeface, Willow is the reminiscent of the Scottish Arts and Crafts style made popular by painter and social reformer Jessie Marion King (1875–1949), and architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) of the Glasgow School. The face is based upon a sign for the Willow Tea Room, one of three tea rooms in Glasgow designed by Mackintosh. The typeface is distinct for the double crossbars on the uppercase A and H, and the unusual design of the uppercase O, which is raised above the baseline, with two dots centred beneath the bowl.

Willow Regular

Willow Regular
Category Display
Designer(s) Joy Redick
Foundry Adobe Type

Willow Regular was designed by Joy Redick in 1990, and is part of the Adobe Originals Woodtype Collection.

Popular culture

The TV show American Horror Story features a variant of ITC Willow* prominently in the episodes as well as the series logotype itself.

The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Font was also used in the motion picture Spider-Man 2. It featured in the display signage for the Broadway play (Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest") in which Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), Peter Parker's on-off girlfriend, was appearing. The movie's director, Sam Raimi, spent some time in Glasgow, Scotland, at the Glasgow School of Art, the institute attended by (and later re-designed by) Charles Rennie Mackintosh himself. Raimi became a big fan of Mackintosh's work and specifically asked for this font to be used in the making of the signage. Other huge admirers of Mackintosh's work are Hollywood superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who made an impromptu visit to the Hill House in Helensburgh, Scotland, during Pitt's visit to Glasgow where he was filming the movie "World War Z".

See also

Samples of display typefaces

External links

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