Mānuka
Klim Type Foundry · Kris Sowersby · 2021
A compressed display family riffing on 19th century German timber type, drawn for poster sizes with tight spacing and sharp joins.
About
A compressed display by Kris Sowersby that pulls deviant details from Teutonic timber type and grafts them onto a contemporary antipodean voice. Seven weights run from Thin through to Ultra, with closed apertures, tight spacing and sharp joins that build a dense texture at poster sizes. The wider Mānuka collection extends into Mānuka Condensed and Mānuka Slab, so the system carries one mood across grotesque and slab forms.
Classification
Klim classifies it as Lineal: Grotesque; a collection of compressed fonts for large sizes that pilfers deviant details from Teutonic timber type and grafts a contemporary antipodean aesthetic onto 19th century German root-stock.