Fleursdumal was designed by Yuri Gordon and published by Letterhead Studio-YG. Fleursdumal contains 2 styles and family package options.
How should an authentic baudelairean type look like?
Aesthetically beautiful, that’s for sure. Intellectual, neurotic. Uptight – oh, the conventions of the time. Easily readable – still 20 years to go until the age of art nouveau with its outrage of typefaces. It may have a vibe of a Paris salon – salute to the Parnassiens. Such a modern-class (don’t mix it with the modern-styled) pharmaceutical Antiqua. Contrasts, thin serifs, the integrity of the operating theatre.
But Baudelaire is not Heredia. «Une charogne» is not that much a vivid metaphor as a drawing from nature. The baudelairean typeface should have its cavern, flow, dark side.
Not to demonstrate the fragile romantic profile of a cursed poet, as Baudelaire was seen 130 years ago, but to express the real pain. A true, unattractive, egoistic, suicidal passion.
