Agena Display
Coppers and Brasses · Étienne Aubert Bonn · 2021
A 28-style display superfamily by Étienne Aubert Bonn that spans four widths and seven weights, sitting between humanist and geometric sans traditions.
About
Designed by Étienne Aubert Bonn and released in 2021, the family runs from Condensed to Wide across Light, Book, Regular, Medium, Bold, Extra-Bold and Black. Optical corrections are deliberately exaggerated while stroke contrast is kept low, giving it an unusual tension between geometric rigidity and humanist warmth. The breadth of widths and weights makes it well suited to editorial and poster work where mixing styles within the same family is desirable.
Classification
The foundry describes Agena as bridging 1960s humanist sans-serifs and modern geometric superfamilies, with exaggerated optical corrections and low stroke contrast — placing it between humanist and geometric sans traditions.