Midland is an typeface based on the engravings on film cameras. Specifically Leica’s. The name Midland is in reference to a factory in a city of the same name in Ontario, Canada. It was responsible for manufacturing & even designing a number of superb lenses for Leitz Camera based in Wetzlar.

I did a fairly exact copy of Leica’s engraving back in 2018 called Full Stop, but decided recently to refine it and add some more glyphs (like №, ‡, ©, and ™) and a proper gamut of accented characters (like Ñ, Ç, and Œ.) In the process I ended up making a lot of changes.

The ‘b’, ‘g’, and ‘s’ as well as the numbers ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘5’, and ‘8’ got pot bellies. The cross-bar on all figures was shifted down to a lower axis (ie. abefghpqrsy23456789).

I also did a set of ligatures which should probably never be used unless you truly hate your readers (ie. fjffjfffiflffiffl).

So now it’s a whole different beast. It comes in three weights, and -- unlike many other Leica derived products -- you can have the whole works for $10 CAD.

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The .otf file contains this character set in Bold, Regular, and Light weights:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . , : ; ! ? ' " ‘ ’ “ ” @ _ & # % * + - × ÷ = ~ < > / \ ( ) { } [ ] $ ¢ € £ ¥ © ® ™ À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Œ Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Ÿ Þ Ð Ł Š Ž ¡ ¿ « » ‹ › ¤ • ° ± − ¶ § ‰ ⁄ – — ß ı ^ ˆ ˇ ¨ ˜ ` ´ ¸ ‛ ‚ „ … | † ‡ ij ff ffi ffj ffl fi fj fl ↑ ↗ → ↘ ↓ ↙ ← ↖ ↔ ↕ ≥ ≤ ≈ ≠ ∏ ∞ № 🌐