Post #477335
2024-03-27 14:36 UTC
NEW RELEASE! Focal by Greg Gazdowicz is an unusual kind of revival. Rather than bringing particular typeface back to life, Focal captures the particular quality of a lost era of print production: the 1970s, when the hot-metal era gave way to phototypesetting, and type as a whole lost some of its sharpness.
https://commercialtype.com/catalog/focal
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@commercial@typo.social 2024-03-27 14:38
Every corner is rounded in Focal, but not all corners are rounded equally: inner corners have a more consistent radius, while the outer corners are vertically elongated, better capturing what happened in the photographic process. Its relatively small x-height is out of step with the large post-ITC counterforms that have defined the past two decades of type design, both for fashionable and functional reasons, making it stand out among recent sans serifs. Read more at https://commercialtype.com/about/collections/focal