Henry Font: Cortat’s Book Face and an Architectural Namesake

205TF’s Henry specimen credits Matthieu Cortat and dates the design to 2009. It connects Henry to Henri Parmentier’s Deberny & Peignot Garamond work, specifically medium-size sources, and describes a slender Garalde with distinctive a, J, Q, t and z forms. The specimen separates Regular and Italic. This is a documented interpretation, not a claim that the digital file was used in sixteenth-century printing. For a reading-page study, include the highlighted letters inside real words rather than inspecting only a large decorative H.

The original Henry project entry at 100 Archive credits Bobby Tannam and Evan McGuinness at Bielke+Yang for an architectural-studio identity. Its account draws on Irish architectural lettering, John Soane’s drawings and Michael Biggs’ carved work, with four weights and italics. That describes a separate custom project, not extra weights of Cortat’s book family. Label a reference by client and designer so the common name does not mix the two histories or imply that an identity commission is a public retail font download.

Make a page with a paragraph, an italic quotation and a short heading. Keep the text area and wording fixed while comparing the intended Henry resource with independent EB Garamond and Source Serif 4 specimens. Inspect a narrow word, the longest line and the punctuation around the quotation. Adjust the text size and line spacing for the actual reading page rather than copying a size from a large specimen. The homepage’s elegant text styles for short captions substitutes Unicode characters; it does not install either Henry project or preserve its paragraph metrics.