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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
- Classification
- Modern: Lineal/Geometric
- Font formats
- OTF DesktopWOFF2 WebTTF App
- OpenType features
- Ligaturesliga
- Contextual alternatescalt
- Old-style numeralsonum
- Tabular numeralstnum
- Slashed zerozero
- Fractionsfrac
- Inferiorssinf
- Capital formscase
- Glyph count
- 562 per Roman style562 per Italic style7,868 total
- Font styles
- 14
- Hinting
- Manual VTT hinting
- Kerning
- Manual kerning2,970 pairs per style
| Font name | File size |
|---|---|
| Karbon Hairline | 47kb |
| Karbon Hairline Italic | 49kb |
| Karbon Thin | 50kb |
| Karbon Thin Italic | 53kb |
| Karbon Light | 66kb |
| Karbon Light Italic | 64kb |
| Karbon Regular | 70kb |
| Karbon Regular Italic | 71kb |
| Karbon Medium | 76kb |
| Karbon Medium Italic | 78kb |
| Karbon Semibold | 73kb |
| Karbon Semibold Italic | 77kb |
| Karbon Bold | 70kb |
| Karbon Bold Italic | 71kb |