ITC Willow Font

Tony Forster designed Willow with inspiration from Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s work. The publisher places its style in a Viennese Secessionist and Arts and Crafts context, describing a condensed sans with irregular edges, alternates and ligatures.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

Inspect repeated letters and alternate combinations in the publisher’s actual specimen. References to Mackintosh identify a design influence rather than a claim that the modern files were drawn by the architect himself.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Try a cafe title and a decorative announcement. Poiret One and Josefin Sans provide independent display comparisons with different proportions. Keep the rest of the layout restrained so the heading’s unusual rhythm remains intentional.

For independent comparisons, try Poiret One and Josefin Sans. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use ITC on MyFonts to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve ITC Willow font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.