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Grand Gothik
Grand Gothik is a postmodern, multiscript, multifaceted and variable type system which pays homage to the development of grotesque/gothic typefaces over the years. Taking late 19th and early 20th century European and American grotesques as a starting point, it traces this typeface genre up to mid-century movie theater marquees, new wave cinematography, American highway signage and telephone directories, adding some historical references for good measure.
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Grand Gothik
Copyright ©2018
Designer: Panos Vassiliou
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Grand Gothik is a postmodern, multiscript, multifaceted and variable type system which pays homage to the development of grotesque/gothic typefaces over the years. Taking late 19th and early 20th century European and American grotesques as a starting point, it traces this typeface genre up to mid-century movie theater marquees, new wave cinematography, American highway signage and telephone directories, adding some historical references for good measure.Originally designed in 2017 as a bespoke typeface for a bilingual, black and white magazine on surfers, waves and landscapes, it was later reimagined and redesigned leading to the release of its commercial version. The name reflects Grand Gothik’s versatility as a fully functional variable font and its depiction of a vast array of gothic styles found in American and European grotesques. Designed with 3 stylistic alternates, each variation of Grand Gothik depicts a specific period and style: from the less calculated appearance of late 19th century grotesques all the way to their gracefully-shaped contemporary counterparts. The Grand Gothik type system comes with a wide range of styles/weights and supports an extended array of languages and scripts such as Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Keeping up with the ever-evolving virtual and digital landscape, Grand Gothik comes with an extended character set of weather icons, numeral symbols, wayfinding arrows, movie rating stars and emojis. Also, a Bitcoin symbol was designed as part of its character set in its newly introduced unicode position, rendering Grand Gothik a truly functional modern typeface.
Stylistic Alternates: Replaces individual glyphs with several alternate forms purely for aesthetic reasons. Highlight the standard glyph you want to change and select the option ‘stylistic alternates’ or ‘alternates for selection’ from the program’s glyphs palette. From the alternate glyphs that appear select one and replace. Whereas the stylistic sets 01, 02 and 03 replace a whole set of glyphs, the stylistic alternates feature replaces individual glyphs. These can be the same or different from the ones that are part of the stylistic sets.
Stylistic Alternate 1: The first variation retains the squared-off stems of the default version, while letter “a” and “G” lose their spur, the curved terminal of “y” becomes straight and the crotch of “M” sharp-pointed, altogether imbuing the typeface with a corporate texture.
Stylistic Alternate 2: The second variation is more eclectic, exchanging the squared-off stems for slanted ones, with the ascenders and descenders for letters such as “b, d, h, k, l, p, q, t” ultimately becoming more angular. The same applies to similar Greek and Cyrillic letterforms.
Stylistic Alternate 3: The third variation is vibrant, uncalculated and constitutes a nod to early 20th century European Grotesque styles. The middle stroke on letters such as E, F and H sits higher, pushing the design of other characters such as B, K, P and R, in the same design direction. An alternate version of letter “a” was designed to reflect that era, along with alternate forms for lowercase “t”. The same applies to similar Greek and Cyrillic letterforms.
SCRIPTS
1250 Eastern European , 1251 Cyrillic , 1252 Latin 1 , 1253 Greek , Greek Extended , 1254 Turkish , 1257 BalticSUPPORTED LANGUAGES
Albanian, Bosnian (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Azeri (Cyrillic), Belarusian, Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bulgarian, Kyrgyz, Macedonian (FYROM), Moldovian, Mongolian, Russian, Serbian, Tatar, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Afrikaans, Alsatian, Basque, Bislama, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, Franco-Provencal, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Ladin, Latin, Luxembourgish, Malay, ManxGaelic, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romansh, Sami (Inari), Sami (Lule), Sami (Skolt), Sami (Southern), ScottishGaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Walloon, Welsh, Greek, GreekPolytonic, Azeri (Latin), Kurdish (Latin), Turkish, Uzbek (Latin), Estonian, Latvian, LithuanianNAME
PF Grand GothikFORMAT
OpenType PSPACKAGE
Family of 18 fonts (also available as separate weights)GLYPHS
1020 glyphs /font
PRO FEATURES
Standard f-Ligatures, Oldstyle Figures (tabular/proportional), Lining Figures (tabular/proportional), Localized Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set 1, Stylistic Set 2, Stylistic Set 3, Slashed Zero, Ornaments, Access All Alternates
PRICE
family: €585.00
single weight: €65.00