The Orpheus Pro fonts started out as a straightforward revival of Walter Tiemann’s interwar Orpheus and Euphorion designs. It was as simple as a work brief can be. But did we ever get carried away, and what should have been finished in a few weeks ended up consuming the best part of a year, countless jugs of coffee, and the clinical scrutiny of so many pairs of eyeballs. The great Roman caps just screamed for plenty of extensions, alternates, swashes, ligatures, and fusions from different times. The lowercase wanted additional alternates and even a few ligatures. The italic needed to get the same treatment for its lowercase that Tiemann envisioned for the uppercase. So the lowercase went overboard with plenty of alternates and swashes and ligatures. Even the italic uppercase was augmented by perhaps too many extra forms. Each of Orpheus Pro fonts come equipped with more than 1000 glyphs. They’re also all very rich with substitution features and extended Latin language support.