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Karbon is an open, geometric sans serif with a contemporary spartan finish. It is an exploration of Paul Renner’s reductionist Futura concept channelled through the proportions of Eric Gill’s eponymous sans, with a slight nod towards Jan Tschichold’s Uhertype sans-serif. Karbon Slab Stencil extends the spartan linework into slab-serif territory. Its logical program of breaks references the industrial heritage of stencilled letterforms.
- Design
- Kris Sowersby
- Engineering
- Noe Blanco
- Chester Jenkins
- Awards
- Creative Review Type Annual, Best in Book2011
- Release date
- 2009
- Current version
- 1.007
- Classifications
- KarbonModern: Lineal/Geometric
- Karbon Slab StencilModern: Mechanistic/Stencil
- Font formats
- OTF DesktopWOFF2 WebTTF App
- Average glyph count
- 508 per Roman style281 per Italic style8,776 total
- Font styles
- 16
- Hinting
- Manual VTT hinting
- Kerning
- Manual kerning46,200 total pairs