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Germany has got a strong heritage of industrial typefaces. These fonts seem like being constructed by engineers. The shapes seem to be built with circles and squares. DIN Mittelschrift is one very famous example, or the font on the old german car numberplates. Since the »Romain du Roi« we know that it is tricky to draw a geometrical typeface. For optical reasons you have to go away from circles and lines with exactly one weight. Therefore the aime is not to construct a typeface but to draw it the way it seems constructed finally. As you can see on the picture, the final typeface is very different. The design of a typeface is like stage production. Like stongly made up acters the characters of a typeface must be superrelevated, to be very clear in there seeming. Particularly in small sizes. Konsens has got 9 weights from Light to Ultrabold with italics like most of my other families. Konsens Stencil In addition to that there a Stencil headline companion. It also has got 9 weights but no italics. I am working on a rounded version, but I am not sure about that yet.    |
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