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Geometrico
Round without Compromises.

# Geometric

# Reinvented
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Reflections
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How coura­geous and inno­v­a­tive were Paul Ren­ner and Herb Lubalin with their font designs! In com­par­i­son, today’s Swiss font design scene can be described as flat­ten­ing out. More or less “accu­rate” vari­ants of the Hel­vetica font are being “warmed up” more and more. We do not appre­ci­ate this devel­op­ment and are offer­ing here con­sciously type­faces that you wouldn’t nec­es­sar­ily expect under the term “Swiss Design”.

For the 90th anniver­sary of the type­face “Futura”, Geometrico was designed: a new inter­pre­ta­tion of the Bauhaus clas­sic and a trib­ute to Paul Ren­ner. “How many cir­cu­lar ele­ments can be used in a type­face?”, asked him­self the author. “Futura” con­tains already 13 cir­cu­lar ele­ments in the minus­cules only, the new font fam­ily Geometrico 15. Does the read­abil­ity suf­fer?

Interesting links on typography

Alpha­bettes – Essays, research and per­spec­tives on typog­ra­phy.

atoxina.com – Font Atox­ina, Sounds like Klin­gon

Brand New (Under­Con­sid­er­a­tion) – Crit­i­cal analy­ses of visual iden­ti­ties and logos, with strong atten­tion to typo­graphic aspects.

Font Review Jour­nal – Crit­i­cal reviews of con­tem­po­rary type­faces, with a focus on qual­ity and con­text of use.

Fonts in the North – Projects and reflec­tions on Nordic and Scan­di­na­vian typog­ra­phy, between tra­di­tion and exper­i­men­ta­tion.

Fonts In Use – Inter­na­tional archive of real-world typo­graphic appli­ca­tions.

Graphic Design Stack Exchange – Tech­ni­cal ques­tions and answers on typog­ra­phy, fonts, microty­pog­ra­phy and pro­duc­tion.

Hoe­fler & Co. Blog – The­o­ret­i­cal and prac­ti­cal arti­cles by the Hoe­fler & Co. team on type design, his­tory and typo­graphic usage.

I Love Typog­ra­phy – Arti­cles, inter­views and type design his­tory.

Mate­r­ial Design – Google’s typo­graphic guide­lines.

Medium – Typog­ra­phy – Con­tem­po­rary arti­cles on typog­ra­phy.

Prac­ti­cal Typog­ra­phy – Matthew Butterick’s online typog­ra­phy man­ual.

Red­dit – Type Design – Com­mu­nity focused exclu­sively on type design and char­ac­ter draw­ing.

Red­dit – Typog­ra­phy – Inter­na­tional dis­cus­sions on typo­graphic the­ory, prac­tice and cri­tique.

Shap­ing Text – Edi­to­r­ial typog­ra­phy con­cepts and microty­pog­ra­phy.

Smash­ing Mag­a­zine – Tech­ni­cal guides and arti­cles on typog­ra­phy and UI.

swissfonts.com – Swiss­fonts. Swiss Qual­ity Fonts.

Type Today Jour­nal – Con­tem­po­rary insights on type and graphic design.

Type­De­tail – In-depth analy­ses of indi­vid­ual glyphs, curves, pro­por­tions and typo­graphic design details.

Type­Draw­ers – Inter­na­tional forum for type design dis­cus­sions.

Type­r­oom – Typo­graphic cul­ture, arti­cles and design news.

Type­wolf – Curated show­cases of web typog­ra­phy, with analy­ses of pair­ings, trends and best prac­tices.

Typo­graph­ica – Reviews and crit­i­cal essays on type­faces.