{"id":14372,"date":"2017-04-10T04:57:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T08:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.customink.com\/?p=14372"},"modified":"2017-07-31T10:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T14:26:54","slug":"font-of-the-week-onyx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.customink.com\/blog\/font-of-the-week-onyx\/","title":{"rendered":"Font of the Week &#8211; Onyx"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--<p class=\"last-updated\">Last updated on July 31st, 2017 at 10:26 am<\/p>--><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.customink.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20FOTW-Onyx-768x878-e1491814387840.jpg\" alt=\"17FOTW Lithos\" width=\"650\" height=\"743\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14373\" \/><br \/>\nOnyx was created as a throwback to the nineteenth century craze over fat face fonts. <a href=\"https:\/\/fontsinuse.com\/uses\/5578\/the-story-of-our-friend-the-fat-face\" target=\"blank\">Fat face fonts<\/a> were the marketing world&#8217;s response to the explosion of trade and commerce in Europe. Print advertising saw a huge uptick, and with that surge came bold yet condensed styles perfect for headlines. Onyx, created by Gerry Powell in 1955, is a reboot of those fat face favorites, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.customink.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/font-of-the-week-bodoni\/\" target=\"blank\">Bodoni<\/a>. With such extreme stroke contrasts, Onyx is perfect for eye catching titles but can pretty tough to read when made smaller. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\nOur Font of the Week images are created by Emily Clark, an Expert Production Artist at CustomInk and a self-declared font addict. Font of the Week fuels Emily&#8217;s passion to research and learn more about beloved typefaces like Onyx. What font should Emily feature next? Sound off in the comments below!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onyx was created as a throwback to the nineteenth century craze over fat face fonts. 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