Revising CemeteryWalk

In 2018 I designed CemeteryWalk for a local cemetery-walk event. In September I thought it might be useful to add a few more images of tombstone art to the fonts, and once I started, I kept thinking of other improvements I could make. I ended up adding an alternative set of letters, reachable with the OpenType stylistic alternatives feature, as well as a set of accented characters used in various European languages. The set of alternatives takes letters from the typeface RoundWhy, which like Roundup used in the original set of letters, has reverse contrast. 

As for the added images, they became a separate font, CemeteryWalk-Art. The font began with images that I had previously designed, was supplemented from ideas I found on the Internet, and was completed by designs based on tombstone art in a local cemetery. Below are some of the images that were based on images from the local cemetery. Some but not all of the pictures in the typeface have both a silhouette and an outlined form that can be used together in layers, as in the picture below.

Until the early 20th century many of the images on gravestones had symbolic meaning. For example, there are two flower buds with a broken stems in the picture above. They were a symbol used on the grave of a child, a person who died before blooming. Flowers remain common on markers but now they seem to be more decorative than symbolic.

The revised and expanded CemeteryWalk family is available at myfonts and fontspring.