Kade Regular Font

Font Id

26780

Font Name

Kade Regular Font

Font Format

OpenType Mac/Win

Font Family

KadeKade

Glyphs

707

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 by David Quay. All rights reserved.

Price

$45.00

Description

Kade is a display/semi display sans family of fonts based on vernacular lettering photographed over the last ten years in and around the harbours of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Hence the name Kade that translates into English as ‘quay’, also the name of its designer.

Kade grew slowly from many different ideas and elements. The letters reflects the industrial method in which they are cut for the side of ships from large steel plates. Frequently subtleties of curves are compromised due to the cutting tools and the fact engineers are in control. Kade’s italics have an experimental character and were produced in an unorthodox manner by rotating 8 degrees, rather than slanting the roman characters, a method sometimes employed in shipyards.

Kade constructed character is ideal for contemporary editorial works, architecture magazines, museums communication and posters.

The six distinct styles are published in OpenType format, featuring small caps and four sets of numbers (proportional old style, tabular old style, proportional lining and tabular lining), as well as matching currency symbols and a complete set of fractions and ligatures.

technic,Dutch,Netherlands,amsterdam,din,modular,vernacular,sans,modern,ship,boat,magazine,avant garde

OpenType

Standard, Stylistic Set 01, Small Caps, Scientific Inferiors, Stylistic Alternates, Proportional Figures, Ordinals, Oldstyle Figures, Numerator, Localized Forms, Lining Figures, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Denominator, Glyph Comp/Decomp, Case Sensive Forms, Capitals to Small Caps, Access All Alternates, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures, Slashed Zero

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ReType Foundry

Ramiro Espinoza became interested in type design when he was a student at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina. After graduation he taught Typography at the Universidad de Buenos Aires — under the direction of Silvia Gonzalez. In 2003 he moved to The Netherlands and studied at the KABK in The Hague. Since then he has been a contributor to 'Tipográfica' and 'Tiypo' design magazines, researched vernacular Dutch lettering and worked in numerous freelance assignments for FontShop International. In 2007 he founded ReType type foundry to market his typefaces.

Posted on

Jul 29, 2013

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Licensing available

Desktop, WebFont, Mobile App & ePub