Oak Street

There's a little restaurant in an old house on a sidestreet in Rockland, Maine, called Cafe Miranda. The staff is friendly, the setting intimate, and the appetizer a basket of hot bread fresh from a brick oven. Its ample menu features such entries as "Quasi-Cassoulet" and "Gentle Sole." Years ago, one of the waitstaff copied out each of scores of menu items by hand. And the menu changed often. So one day I took a menu home—and subsequently delivered this full-fledged typeface to the folks at the little restaurant on Oak Street. It's a heavyweight font with a slight left-leaning slant and a chockablock character set, including true small caps, numerous ligatures, and complete Central/Eastern European alphabets—more than 650 glyphs in all.