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Alfabet

Corentin Noyer · Corentin Noyer · 2020

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Alfabet specimen from Corentin Noyer

A single-weight titling sans on a 25-square grid, after Epps and Evans's machine-readable alphabet and Theo van Doesburg's lettering.

About

Alfabet draws on two sources: the alphabet Timothy Epps and Christopher Evans drew at the National Physical Laboratory in 1969 to be read by a machine, and Theo van Doesburg's lettering of the 1920s. Every glyph sits on a 25-square grid, which pushes the Latin alphabet to an extreme of rationalisation. One bold style, 496 glyphs, for headlines and posters.

Classification

A titling sans built on a 25-square grid, reducing the Latin alphabet to stark modular strokes. Its roots in machine-readable lettering and De Stijl put it with geometric display faces rather than text sans.

Weights

Bold

Family

Alfabet Bold

Languages

Latin

Tags

geometricmodulargridde-stijltitlingmachine-readabledisplay

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