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- Typeface classification
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... extreme. "Neo-Grotesque" is easier: neo-grotesques are the line of sans serif typefaces that owe their ultimate ... low contrast, consistent stroke widths (although neo-grotesques aren't generally monoline), a strong vertical emphasis. ...
Forum topic - marc - 14 Mar 2005 - 8:01am - 44 comments - 0 attachments
- typeface tango: how to decide who can/should dance with whom
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... and has a very vertical stress that matches well with the grotesques and neo-grotesques like Helvetica. But neither of them match something like ...
Forum topic - TypophileGirl - 5 Mar 2007 - 7:53pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments
- Helvetica vs. Univers
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... modern. If you compare Univers with AG or other older grotesques, it looks visibly newer. Unlike Helvetica, Univers has letters of ...
Forum topic - BrooklynRob - 27 Jan 2010 - 3:47pm - 53 comments - 0 attachments
- Can you ever pair two sans serifs?
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... for text. I have had success mixing 19th-century grotesques, though the appearance is more specialized. Grotesque MT, Gothic 13, ...
Forum topic - addink - 8 Jun 2007 - 5:15pm - 24 comments - 0 attachments
- Berlin's Train Station signage
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... Unter den Linden 2 & Potsdamerplatz 1; Both "jackboot grotesques", Potsdamerplatz seems close to the 1934 Deutschland type. ...
Forum topic - Stephen Lording - 25 Jun 2006 - 4:24am - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- The Mystery of Steile Futura (Topic)
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... He could not have anticipated the revival of rationalised grotesques, or of post-Syntax sanses (that humanist label is really too loaded, ...
Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 11:49am - 149 comments - 0 attachments
- Akzidenz-Grotesk (Re-)Release Dates
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... face kicks some major booty. One of the wikkidest black grotesques in the known universe. Erik you are The Man. Erik you are The ...
Forum topic - gabrielhl - 31 Jan 2006 - 5:10pm - 71 comments - 0 attachments
- Egyptian slab serif
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... with no serifs. Egyptians, as has been said earlier, are grotesques with serifs. That such letterforms are more suitable for ...
Forum topic - missgiggles - 22 Dec 2006 - 11:13am - 56 comments - 0 attachments
- Neweue Helpetica:-)
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... typefaces restrain the rising of *new* grotesques. In the other hand, you can experiment more with humanist sans ... now? hhp "Useful", compared to grotesques... And yes, there's a lot of humanist sans around, I did one ...
Forum topic - aquatoad - 12 May 2003 - 10:36am - 20 comments - 0 attachments
- Akzidenz Grotesk roots
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... belong to the same formal category. The German grotesques of the XIX century, like Akzidenz Grotesk, tend to geometry and ...
Forum topic - xurxo_insua - 1 May 2004 - 1:56pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments


