Located in Newcastle upon Tyne, The Northern Block was created by Jonathan Hill in 2006. Known for their anti-establishment approach to type design, The Northern Block flawlessly incorporates comprehensive functionality into each of its letter sets. The final result is a seamless blend of artistry and practicality–beautiful workhorse fonts that offer designers an incredible degree of versatility in their work.
The Northern Block’s latest release, Syke Mono, is a gorgeously sleek and modern sans serif. Clean simplicity mingles with technological elegance in this font, every stroke of its geometric lines pay a subtle homage to the classic monospaced style of typewritten lettering.
Five weights are each accompanied by corresponding true italics: Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold. Syke Mono provides extensive multilingual support for international design, including Baltic, Basic Greek, Basic Latin, Central European, Euro, Igbo Onwu, Pan African Latin, Pinyin, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Western European languages. Additional features like stylistic alternates, fractions, old style figures, numerators, denominators, currency symbols, and slashed zero complete the package.
Syke Mono is perfectly suited for mobile apps, website interfaces, e-book text, computer coding, and database applications. That said, it’s not just for technology-driven content or data entry; Syke Mono is totally at home in modern advertising spreads, product packaging, logos, business cards, and labels. One thing’s for sure: a monospaced font this well-rounded is an absolute must-have.
Syke Mono is on sale 40% off until December 5th, so grab this one right now and enjoy some fantastic savings!
We’re huge fans of The Northern Block and we encourage you to check out their entire portfolio available at YouWorkForThem. With dozens and dozens of products available, you’re sure to find plenty of great stuff to add to your font arsenal!
