Plang Normal
A humanist sans rooted in the hand-painted signage of Keprabon Street in Surakarta, Indonesia, where brush painters earnestly tried to replicate printed type and produced something more interesting in the process.
About
Named after the Indonesian word for signage, Plang captures the productive tension between mechanical precision and the human hand. The Normal width is one of six widths across a system of 108 styles, spanning nine weights from Thin to Black each with a matching italic. Language support covers Latin Extended, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese and Pan-African scripts.
Classification
Drawn from the tradition of Indonesian sign painters trying to replicate printed type by hand, Plang sits in the humanist sans category, carrying the warmth and slight irregularity of brush-influenced letterforms resolved into a disciplined type system.