ABC Asfalt
Dinamo Typefaces · Dinamo (Fabian Harb), Olga Umpeleva · 2020
A wide-to-narrow display sans drawn from painted road lettering, with five widths from Compressed to Expanded across four weights.
About
A display sans by Fabian Harb and Olga Umpeleva that takes its forms from the elongated road-painted lettering you read from a driver's seat. Five widths run from Compressed through Normal to Expanded, each at Light, Regular, Medium and Bold, giving a full lockup system for posters, packaging and identity work. Pulls in vernacular Brazilian signage and a stencilled cut of Niggli's Lettera as source material.
Classification
Dinamo describes Asfalt's elongated, tightly-packed forms as drawn from painted road lettering, stretched to compensate for the low perspective of an approaching car. The starting point was a stencilled version of road lettering from Niggli's mid-century Lettera series plus a Brazilian road-signage manual.