Figgins Sans

$ 249.00

License:
COMMERCIAL
Format:
OTF
Glyphs:
1603
Features:
aalt c2sc calt case ccmp dlig dnom frac hist kern liga lnum numr onum ordn pnum salt sinf smcp ss01 ss02 ss03 ss04 ss05 ss06 ss07 ss08 subs sups titl tnum
Version:
1.005
Published:
2008
LocalFonts:
14/07/2020
Styles:
Complete family of 4 fonts
Designer:
Nick Shinn
Copyright:
© 2008 by Shinntype. All rights reserved.

Description

Description

To meet the burgeoning demands of commerce, type founders in 1830s London introduced a plethora of new fonts which abandoned the traditional nib-informed model. Most radical were bold, capital-only designs with almost no stroke contrast, stripped bare of serifs. To all intents and purposes these minimal expressions of utility were identical to 20th century functionalism. Recontextualizing one of the original sans fonts, Shinn offers an alternative proposition to the myth of modernism.

Design, Publisher, Copyright, License

Design: Nick Shinn

Publisher: Shinntype

Copyright 2008 by Nick Shinn, Shinntype. All rights reserved.

Nick Shinn

Nick Shinn

Nick Shinn (b. London, 1952) is an art director and type designer. He teaches at York University in Toronto, and is a founding member of the Type Club of Toronto. He writes regularly for Graphic Exchange magazine, and has contributed to Applied Arts, Marketing, Design, and Druk. He founded Shinn Type in 1999, and made fifteen type families. Interview by Jan Middendorp, in which he describes himself as a contrarian. Pic by Isaias Loaiza. Pic by Chris Lozos at Typo SF in San Francisco in 2012. Custom typefaces have been produced for newspapers such as The Birmingham News (Alabama), The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Express (London), The Daily Mail (London), The Globe and Mail (Toronto), The Montreal Gazette, and The St. Petersburg Times (Florida). Custom fonts, with exclusive rights, have been created for corporations such as Thomson Nelson, Enbridge, Rogers Communications Inc., and Martha Stewart Living. Nick organizes type evenings in Toronto all year long.

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Vendor Information

Vendor: Stefan Peev
Rating: 3.00 rating from 2 reviews
Company: CONTEXT Ltd