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Denim

Displaay Type Foundry · Martin Vacha, Daniel Quisek · 2021

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sans-serifgrotesque with flattened overshootsitalic
Denim specimen from Displaay Type Foundry

A grotesque by Martin Vacha and Daniel Quisek with flattened overshoots, a wider WD cut and an INK family with rounded inner corners.

About

A sans by Martin Vacha and Daniel Quisek first sketched February 2021 and released June 2021. Twenty-four weights span four families across narrow and wide widths, with INK variants that carry rounded inner corners drawn from silkscreen on denim, forty-eight styles total, plus a three-axis variable cut on Weight, Slant and Width. Italics run at 11 degrees. Flattened overshoots help the type sit cleanly on the line. Latin Extended, Greek and Cyrillic.

Classification

Displaay class Denim under sans / grotesque. The Denim Collection has four families: Denim (narrow), Denim WD (wide), Denim INK (rounded inner corners) and Denim INK WD. Italics run at 11 degrees, framed as the golden number after beer grades. Flattened overshoots seat the typeface neatly on the line.

Weights

ThinExtraLightLightRegularMediumSemiBoldBoldHeavy

Optical sizes and widths

narrowwideink narrowink wide

Family

Denim WDDenim INKDenim INK WD

Languages

Latin ExtendedGreekCyrillic

Tags

grotesqueflattened overshootsink trapwidenarrowhumanistvariablemulti-script