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Process Type Foundry · Eric Olson · 2018
A monospaced tribute to the Bauer Type Foundry's Venus, blending Grotesque and Art Nouveau influences within the strict constraints of a fixed-width framework.
About
Eric Olson's 2018 design takes Venus, the early 20th century Bauer typeface, as its starting point and forces its formal tensions into a monospace grid. The resulting family of five weights with matching italics holds onto Venus's mix of Grotesque and Art Nouveau references while the fixed-width structure gives it a contemporary technical character. The ten styles sit naturally in editorial and coding contexts where historical warmth and mechanical precision are both welcome.
Classification
A monospaced typeface drawing on Grotesque and Art Nouveau influences, specifically referencing Venus by the Bauer Type Foundry; the monospace constraint is its defining structural feature.