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Stamen Thin Font

Font Id: 47446
Font Name: Stamen Thin Font
Font Format: OpenType Mac/Win
Font Family: StamenStamen
Glyphs: 435
Price: $20.00
Description: Stamen is the answer to a big question: What would happen if one tried to create a typeface that was ‘out of time’? If a type designer was to turn off the internet and put away the type specimens and just try to explore limbic, phantom history, what might that look like?

No slavish explorations of the past. No gropings toward the future. No exhaustive core sample of the contemporary. Instead, using what one remembers of history and our collective vision of the future (usually a future imagined from the past) and channeling that into something that is, hopefully, new… The Bentons meet Frutiger for a Manhattan on a space station while Matthew Carter sways to the sweet sounds of the chorale that occasionally played through the halls of Stephenson Blake.

This smear of implicit history expressed without explicit reference—this is Stamen: a family of 12 typefaces with a ton of alternate characters.

The bold weight was designed for the LP “I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler” (http://ittfwbc.com/) by the band YACHT in response to their request for a typeface that was ‘lost in time’, and refers to neither strict historical models nor purely futuristic forms.

I built a small family out from there. It works well in text, but just as well for display setting. I think you’ll enjoy using it.

- Ian Lynam
OpenType: Standard, Discretionary Ligatures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Set 01, Stylistic Set 02, Stylistic Set 03, Stylistic Set 04, Stylistic Set 05, Stylistic Set 06, Stylistic Set 07, Stylistic Set 08, Stylistic Set 09
Posted by: Wordshape
Wordshape is a boutique type foundry and publisher operating in Tokyo. Run by Ian Lynam and Thien Huynh, we offer a curated selection of design goods that have a connection to our graphic design studios and associated projects.

In addition to our library of retail fonts, we also design custom fonts for clients of all sizes. From the modification of existing fonts, to the design of a complete family from scratch, we design typefaces to fit most needs.

Select clients include Adidas, Boeing, Bon Appetit Magazine, Nike, Rap-Up Magazine, Pony, The WB, and Conde Nast.
Posted on: Mar 31, 2016
Product Ranking: 15593
Highest Rank Achieved: 536
Licensing available: Desktop, WebFont, Mobile App, ePub & Stock Art

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