Transat Light Font

Transat Light Font
Font Name
Transat Light Font
Font Family
Transat
Glyphs
698
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2011-2013 by Greg Shutters & Typetanic Fonts. All rights reserved.
Price
$29.00
Description
Transat is a geometric sans serif typeface, with caps inspired by Art Deco signage — found inside the "Gare Maritime" (literally "sea station") ocean liner terminals in both Le Havre and Cherbourg, France, in the early 1930s. The name “Transat” is the common shortening of “Compagnie Générale Transatlantique,” the company that operated majestic ocean liners like the SS Normandie out of Le Havre from 1862–1974.

Transat includes many OpenType features, such as ligatures (ff/ft/fft), small capitals, case sensitive forms, stylistic alternates, arbitrary fractions, and a full compliment of proportional, tabular, and oldstyle figures.

The typeface, released in 5 weights (including optically-corrected obliques) is perfect for display usage, and the standard and medium weights are also well-suited for short-to-medium length text settings.
1920s,1930s,1940s,architectural,Art Deco,Art Moderne,Bauhaus,capital sharp s,clean,Geometric,elegant,French,geometric,grotesk,grotesque,low x-height,magazine,modern,modernist,poster,retro,sans serif,sans-serif,sans,signage,small-x,Streamline Moderne,versal eszett,vintage,WPA
OpenType
Standard, Tabular Figures, Superscript, Subscript, Stylistic Set 01, Small Caps, Stylistic Alternates, Proportional Figures, Oldstyle Figures, Numerator, Lining Figures, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Denominator, Case Sensive Forms, Capitals to Small Caps
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Greg Shutters is a Chicago-based designer specializing in type and lettering and began releasing commercial typefaces under the Typetanic Fonts label in 2013. Greg has a certificate in typeface design from the “Type@Cooper” extended program at The Cooper Union, and his typefaces have won numerous awards from The One Club / ADC, the Society of Typographic Arts (STA 100), Communication Arts, and Type Directors Club. Type Directors Club also named Greg as one of their “Ascenders” in 2019, which recognizes the work of designers under 35 years of age who show remarkable achievement in typography, type design, and lettering.

Posted on
Mar 05, 2013
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Highest Rank Achieved
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