Potenciarte
Nasir Udin Studio · Nasir Udin · 2023
An all-caps display typeface with five weights, drawn from the Art Deco and Art Nouveau lettering found on colonial-era building facades in Surabaya's Nederlandsch-Indie period.
About
Potenciarte takes its formal cues from the architectural lettering of early 20th-century Dutch colonial Surabaya, where Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles left a distinct mark on building facades. The family spans five weights from Regular to Heavy, covering 656 glyphs with Latin and Cyrillic character sets supporting over 200 languages. OpenType features include discretionary ligatures, fractions, ordinals and localized forms.
Classification
An all-caps display typeface drawing directly from Art Deco and Art Nouveau lettering traditions, designed without lowercase and intended for headline and decorative use.