Description
Kurt is inspired by a logotype designed in the 1960s by Kurt Hauert “chaussures au centre”, professor at the AGS Basel, as well as a close essay by Helmut Schmid in 1964 when Hauert was his professor. It too in the same weight, rather thin, some letters of which are published in design is attitude. In 2004, this type studies will be used as a basis for an “aino” logotype. He wrote about the “chaussures au centre” logotype: “the logomark that hauert designed in the 1960s, has the basic forms that we tried to achieve in the graphic design class.” These forms can in fact be found in grotesk essays that predate the modernist Neue Haas Grotesk and Univers published around 1957, and which show a synthesis of the principles of calligraphy with the idea of a standardised lineal. Numerous lineal designs with the same contrasting structure and very narrow connections, with the impressive s, the seemingly unbalanced z, and the wonderful a, whose central horizontal bar oscillates between stiffness and organics, then a softened mirror of the s., appear on numerous Swiss posters, both from Basel and Zurich, from the beginning of the 1950s, in a rather medium weight, and in particular on those of Fritz Buhler, which were used here to construct the capitals and numbers. Kurt is in development, and will go up to extrabold.
Information
Design
Year
Availability
Release
Styles
Files Formats
Glyphs
Price
Alex Lescieux
2022
2023
2025
1
otf, woff, woff2
762
From 90€
OT Features
aalt
ccmp
locl
subs
sinf
sups
numr
dnom
frac
ordn
lnum
pnum
tnum
onum
case
liga
ss01
ss02
Access All Alternates
Composites
Localized Forms
Subscript
Scientific Inferiors
Superscript
Numerators
Denominators
Fractions
Ordinals
Lining Figures
Proportional Figures
Tabular Figures
Oldstyle Figures
Case-Sensitive Forms
Standard Ligatures
Circled Numbers
Black Circled Numbers
Languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Asturian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Koyra Chiini, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, Northern Sami, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Prussian, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Tongan, Turkish, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek (Latin), Volapük, Vunjo, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Yoruba, Zulu
Unicode Blocks
Basic Latin
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin Extended-A
Legacy Character Sets
MacOS Roman (Standard Latin)
MacOS Central European Latin
MacOS Celtic
MacOS Croatian
MacOS Iceland
MacOS Romanian
MacOS Turkish
8859-1 Latin-1 Western European
8859-2 Latin-2 Central European
8859-3 Latin-3 South European
8859-4 Latin-4 North European
8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish
8859-10 Latin-6 Nordic
8859-13 Latin-7 Baltic Rim
8859-15 Latin-9
8859-16 Latin-10 South-Eastern European
MS Windows 1250 Central European Latin
MS Windows 1252 Western (Standard Latin)
MS Windows 1254 Turkish Latin
MS Windows 1257 Baltic Latin
Adobe Character Sets
Adobe Latin-1
Adobe Latin-2