Sense Light Font

Font Id

6617

Font Name

Sense Light Font

Font Format

OpenType Mac/Win

Font Family

Sense and SensibilitySense and Sensibility

Glyphs

403

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 by Nick Shinn. All rights reserved.

Price

$29.00

Description

Over time, many of the functors of page layout have become formalized within the concept of typeface as morphic categories, categories being the semantic building blocks of perception at the level of both individual physiology and social production. First case, then skew, weight, horizontal scale and serifization have evolved as the axes about which type families may be configured. To these Nick Shinn has added a cultural axis, with modern (minimalist) and old style (humanist) as the poles of the sans serif genre.

Shinntype's Sense and Sensibility comprise a super-family of two styles of roman with italic, sharing stem widths, vertical metrics, and horizontal scale (though not exact equivalence of character widths). There are eight weights, with alternate figures and identical tab figure width across all 32 fonts.

The types were originally developed for David Pratt's 2007 redesign of The Globe and Mail (Canada's National Newspaper), and have subsequently been slightly modified, with the addition of a Black weight and extended language support.

sans,modern,news,opentype,canada,the globe,clean,super-family,family,sans-serif,north america

OpenType

Standard, Case Sensive Forms, Fractions, Historical Forms, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, Oldstyle Figures, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Tabular Figures

Posted by

Shinntype

Shinntype was founded in Toronto in 1998 to publish the type designs of Nick Shinn, and has since published a variety of original fonts.

Shinn's background as an artist, writer, art director and graphic designer informs his eclectic type designs, which run the gamut from revivals to experimental work exploring new technology, and are used in everything from packaging and advertising to internet, book, magazine, and newspaper publishing around the world.

Posted on

Aug 10, 2010

Product Ranking

20334

Highest Rank Achieved

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Licensing available

Desktop, WebFont, Mobile App & ePub