Triplex Condensed Serif Black Triplex is Licko's first sans-serif text design. Studies have shown that readers read best what they read most.
Legibility is also a dynamic process, as readers' habits are ever changing.
It seems curious that blackletter type styles which we find illegible today were actually preferred over more humanistic designs during the 14th and 15th centuries. Similarly, type styles which we perceive as illegible today may well become tomorrow's classic choices. Triplex Italic, were done in Iowa City in 1985 by John Downer. At one stage, a certain customer was interested in Arcatext but wanted a different italic drawn for it, so the plan for the italic took another direction and the idea for this one was dropped. Five years later, Emigre decided to commission the abandoned italic as a digital typeface in three weights as companions to the Triplex Sans and Serif families designed by Zuzana Licko in early 1990.