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Maple
Designed by Eric Olson 2002–2005

Maple is a flamboyant family of types inspired by the irregular grotesques of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The family features four weights, companion italics and multiple language support.

Formats	Mac	Both PostScript T1 and OpenType Included
	Windows	Both PostScript T1 and OpenType Included

Styles	8 fonts	Regular, Regular Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black and Black Italic

OpenType Features	Ornaments: Directional Arrows Multiple Language Support Extended Latin for Eastern and Central Europe as well as most western languages including: Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh, Afrikaans, Indonesian, Lapp, Swahili and misc. for non-European languages. Please refer to the character sets for glyphs covered. See our OpenType support page for compatibility.

Background on Maple
Maple is the offspring of Process Grotesque, our retired interpretation of the Stephenson Blake grotesques. Although the original was a well-intentioned effort, its uneasy lowercase and unresolved details gave it a feeling of being unfinished. It was shown the door in early 2003.

But... absence makes the heart grow fonder. The original attempt was “revived” in the spring of 2004 and the Stephenson Blake model was put aside to allow for a freer interpretation of the genre incorporating multiple weights and italics.