Anomique is a revival of Île-de-France, a mid-Century Mediterranean curiosity designed by Enric Crous-Vidal in the early 1960s. A native of Catalonia, Crous-Vidal was exiled by the Spanish Civil War and forged documents for the French Resistance before his typographic talents flourished in Paris. He lamented the reductive, cold tendencies of European modernist typography and instead sought to celebrate an vibrant regional voice – what he called la Grafía Latina – “the hand and heart before a compass and mathematics.” The design has been updated and expanded for extensive latin alphabet support. OpenType provides access to a set of reclining Os – alternates that were also available in the original metal – as well as to a set of commas and quotes that preserve the wider bearings of Crous-Vidal’s design.